Bingo! Stories from Daily Gambles

Life is a gamble: unpredictable, capricious, luminous, and brutal.

Within these pages, each card is a story, and each story leads to another: love that hurts, desire that burns, loneliness that lingers, and human beings searching for meaning amid the chaos of everyday life.

Here dwell the woman who slips into someone else’s dress to imagine an impossible wedding; the man who falls in love with the abyss; the princess who flees an inherited destiny; the single woman surviving on chocolates and fantasies; the bastard who promises and slips away; the couple that breaks apart, the one that reinvents itself, the one that lies to itself.

Bingo!—first published in Spanish in 2003 and now available in English—returns, more timely than ever, to remind us that the human heart has not evolved at the pace of technology and still plays by rules as ancient as the world itself, even if no one fully understands them.

With sharp humor, unexpected tenderness, and a lucidity that never ages, Claudia Marcucetti Pascoli portrays Mexican society—and anyone who has loved, lost, or dreamed—with a gaze that is at once a mirror and a source of delight.

One thing is certain: no one emerges from these stories without recognizing something of themselves.

“It is a book of immediate reading, with the irony of a squirt of lemon over a wound, followed by tickles on the sole of the foot to provoke laughter.” — Guillermo Samperio, Revista Siempre

“Marcucetti is a name that has arrived to stay in contemporary Mexican literature. Ingenious, sharp, corrosive, with an agile style and analytical vision…” — TV y Notas

“This is the kind of literature worth exploring.”— Guillermo Arriaga, writer