PositiveChicago Review of BooksChilling stories ... In Megan McDowell’s strong translation, EnrĂquez 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.\