Positive3:AM MagazineIt is, indeed, a book about dying, but it is also a book about memory. Beyond the obvious observation that the vast majority of the novel is taken up with one woman’s account of her life, the narrative is fragmented and incomplete in the way our memories are. Nancy is an unreliable narrator, jumping across time, creating confusion around the time frame of the story. Lloret highlights this disorientation with the inventive use of crosses as a form of punctuation ... Despite the unrelenting brutality of Nancy’s life-story, there is peace to be found in it as well. Throughout she is sustained by a hope that things might improve in one way or another, the kind of hope that makes life bearable, but death tragic ... Lloret succeeds in creating a world that is alive and complete, inhabited by characters whose lives are so possible that they feel real.
