MixedChicago Review of BooksGarcia plays with genre and metafiction in a way that will attract many readers, but confuse others ... It’s hard to say precisely what Garza wants from us. Many readers enjoy a good literary mystery, turning pages back and forth and trying to piece together clues, but the battle to figure out who is speaking in a given chapter, or who they’re referencing, can unnecessarily confuse more interesting questions such as unreliable narrators or themes of gender inversion ... Fascinating riddles and questions are unfortunately hidden behind what may be one too many experiments in this newest outing by Garza.
Mariana Enriquez
PositiveChicago Review of BooksChilling stories ... In Megan McDowell’s strong translation, Enríquez is at her best combining fantastical flair with real-life horrors that we prefer to look away from ... The sometimes unfortunate side of horror: just as often as it can be radical and challenge conventions, it can also fall victim to the same reductive stereotypes we see around us everyday.
Garth Greenwell
RaveThe Chicago Review of Books\"Greenwell captures an entry into that world perfectly, in this novel that is hazy, slow, thoughtful, and yet suspenseful, dreadful, and anxious, cementing his place in the literature of chronic illness while putting another poetic, rich work of fiction on our bookshelves.\
