RaveChicago Review of BooksBeautifully frames Torres’s wide-ranging investigations of queer sexuality, mental illness, and the legacy of Puerto Rico’s colonization ... Some of the most memorable scenes and exchanges in Blackouts are those in which Torres poignantly depicts the narrator’s sense of indebtedness to Juan ... Also a deeply moving queer love story. I won’t give away how that story culminates or what follows, but suffice it to say that Torres has produced a novel as complex and vulnerable as that Tress photograph displayed at the beginning—a novel that will richly reward those who grant, as Juan does, the narrator’s wish to be made naked, opened, and read.
