RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewPeaceful and domestic, funny and sincere. They are also honest about the sadness and exhaustion of trying to assimilate into a culture that perpetually rejects you ... The stories are connected by history, by ambition, by a myth of a nation that never manifests but is reborn again and again in the immigrant gaze.
Chloe Aridjis
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewFrom the beginning, its classification as a story collection is rendered useless. This fabulist work goes beyond the experimental; it is simply an experience — unsettling, monstrous and lovely. The whole thing is so wild and irreverent to formal convention that not knowing what is going on feels perfectly fine ... These stories crawl into spaces that have no map, no doors, no clear way in or out, fiercely refusing to be grounded in any tradition at all.
