Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun

National Book Award finalist M?nica Ojeda returns with a blazing, psychedelic novel about girlhood, violence, and the loss of innocence.

In the near future, best friends Noa and Nicole flee their home in Guayaquil, Ecuador to attend the Solar Noise Festival, a week-long, retro-futuristic gathering at the foot of an active volcano. While Noa fully embraces the haze of narcotics and hedonism in an effort to obscure her true reason for attending, Nicole senses something darker at play behind the festival’s so-called “celebration of life.” Amid technoshamanic poetry, collective hallucinations, and ritualistic dances, each girl navigates her own path in an effort to escape her past and reclaim her right to a future.

Vivid, terrifying, and celebratory, Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun blends the primal with the supernatural, solidifying M?nica Ojeda as one of the most singular and exciting voices in Latin American and world literature today.

Author: Mónica Ojeda
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 05/12/2026
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9781566897556
Language: English