Eight Mondays

Susana faces insurmountable grief when her husband Michael passes away. She takes two weeks off to walk the Superior Hiking Trail from Canada all the way to Duluth to face her grief and feelings head on. When she reaches the end of the hike, she finds that everybody is behaving like a brain cancer patient. Is this the end of the world?

"Eight Mondays" is a suspenseful and provocative novel. Something mysterious happened on the First Monday that nobody understands. Whatever it was causes people to become zombie-like, unable to move, speak, eat of their own volition, or even sleep. If someone helps them, they can drink, eat and function to a limited degree. Some among them are intact, including Susana, the main character. She was hiking the Superior Hiking Trail in Minnesota when the First Monday happened. Susana was doing the hike solo to help herself recover from the devastating death of the love of her life, Michael. Susana strives to save as many of the afflicted as she can, but will she ever find out what's caused this epidemic in the first place?

Mónica Béjar Latonda was born in Barcelona, Spain. When her husband of 18 years died from brain cancer, she decided that a good way to deal with her grief would be to do a pilgrimage. She plans to do the Camino de Santiago hike, but the global pandemic halted her plans. Instead, she decided to write about what could have happened if she had done her pilgrimage.