<b>Brilliant... Heartbreaking... Raw... Sexy... Visceral... Brutal... Unflinching... Astonishing</b>
The Scotsman
<b>Nerve-jangling... Defiantly discomforting... Highly impressive</b>
Daily Mail
<b>Outstanding - complex yet graceful, gnarly yet beautiful. The best book I've read this year.</b>
- Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither,
<b>A scorching examination of how being utterly dependent on someone - even someone you love - can make you a monster.</b>
Literary Hub, 13 Translated Books by Women You Need to Read
<b>Astonishing... Burns with vigour and urgency</b>
Los Angeles Times
<b>Viscous, repulsive, and beautiful</b>
New Yorker
<b>Stunning... Black and bitter and bloody and beautiful</b>
The Nation
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Lina Meruane is one of the most prominent and influential female voices in Chilean contemporary literature. She received her PhD in Latin American Literature from New York University, where she currently serves as professor of World and Latin American Literature and Creative Writing.
Megan McDowell's translations have been published in The New Yorker, Tin House, The Paris Review, Harper's, McSweeney's, Words Without Borders, and Vice, among others.