Published in 2025
316 pages
8 hours and 32 minutes
Meryem El Mehdati was born in 1991 in Rabat (Morocco) and moved to Puerto Rico, Mogán (Gran Canaria), when she was one month old. She currently lives a quiet life in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. That’s what she’s looking for most: tranquility. She likes specialty coffee, taking selfies, sparkling water, Karim Benzema and Zinedine Zidane. Supersaurio is her first book.
Julia Sanches is a literary translator working from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan into English. She holds a BA in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh and an MA in Comparative Literature and Literary Translation from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona. After working as an assistant and agent for several years, representing authors from around the world, she is focusing her energies on translation and advocating for the authors and books she is passionate about.
What is this book about?
An uproarious debut novel about a young woman from the Canary Islands whose internship with a supermarket chain reveals the soul-crushing vagaries of modern life.
Meryem is twenty-five years old, drinks too much coffee, goes on dates with terrifying men and never says what she really thinks. A Canarian from a Moroccan family, she’s just started working as an intern at a mega-chain supermarket, where the only thing she and her boss have in common is their mutual hatred for each other.
To pass the time, Meryem begins to write fan fiction starring her office mates. Surrounded by insecure and inept individuals, she reimagines her bland day job through fabricated office crushes and coworker drama. But to get through the daily grind, she’s going to have to summon more than just her imagination.
Bold, refreshing and darkly comedic, Supersaurio vividly portrays the everyday trials and tribulations of entering your twenties in a world that feels like everything’s pitted against you.
