Bait by Eugenia Ladra

Paso Chico is hot, humid and claustrophobic; a fictional fishermen's town in Uruguay, full of street dogs and dusty roads where nothing ever happens. Until the summer of Marga's thirteenth birthday, when Recio walks into her life. Arriving almost like an apparition, he disrupts the silence of siesta and reveals the strange, twisted dynamics of the town's inhabitants. As a cargo ship waits on the viscous river, a sea of mud and secrets is unleashed, love and violence living side by side in this small rural town.