Exposes...contemporary cultural fault lines that are just as destabilizing and, in their immediacy, more urgent ... In another writer’s hands, Clean would be a good-enough parable about inequality and domestic work. But Trabucco Zerán is masterful at plunging the reader into the murky depths of her characters’ psyches and at rendering disquieting acts with sangfroid ... Deeply compelling ... Haunting.
A novel more interested in both the power and limits of storytelling. Is it even possible for Estela to tell her story in a way that will compel those in power to listen? How are we revealed by the stories we choose to believe in, and the stories we turn away from?
Extraordinary ... Brilliant ... An intense novel about class and power and the kind of deep down rot that lingers, despite the most vigorous scrubbing.
