The President and The Frog by Carolina De Robertis

From Vintage: A “sublime and gripping novel … about hope: that within the world’s messy pain there is still room for transformation and healing” (Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe), from the acclaimed author of Cantoras.“In the president’s excruciating (and sometimes humorous) encounters with his strangely healing frog … De Robertis daringly invites us to imagine a man’s Promethean struggle to wrest control of his broken psyche under the most dire circumstances possible.” —The New York Times Book ReviewAt his modest home on the edge of town, the former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla who was jailed for inciting revolution before becoming the face of justice, human rights, and selflessness for his nation. Now