Book description
* An Oprah Daily Book of 2022 *
A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the three-time International Booker Prize finalist, 'lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.' -O, the Oprah magazine
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At times creepy and always provocative, Samanta Schweblin’s stories always make me look at the world in a new way.
From the moment I read her short novel Fever Dream, I knew I would read anything she writes, and this newest collection of short fiction did not disappoint. I feel a sort of delicious unsteadiness experiencing her visions, which create worlds that are shocking while being eerily recognizable, too.
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