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Gastón Bouvier

Author's Notes

Reflections on the novel, on writing, and on the world of Nothing Stays Drowned.

Note · 2026

Water Remembers What the Land Prefers to Forget

On the line that gives soul to the novel: the land that forgives, the water that keeps, and the memory that never negotiates.

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Note · 2026

Xibalba: The Underworld That Breathes Beneath the Riviera Maya

Before the beaches and the hotels, the Maya already knew what lay beneath. And they knew it had a name.

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Note · 2026

A Book That Won't Hold Your Hand

On the discomfort of judging, the thin line between victim and victimizer, and why I chose not to spare you.

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Note · 2026

Why I Wrote This

Nobody writes a book because of a good idea. On the question that stayed put away for years before becoming a novel.

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Note · 2026

What Stays at the Bottom

On the cenotes, a land without rivers, the offerings still lying where they fell, and why this water never lets anything go.

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