A stinging indictment of Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship that took over Chile in 1973, Bolaño’s story is a crucial warning about the cozy relationship between art, spectacle, and authoritarianism. - Julian Rivas, Sedgwick Library

In this gothic literary horror, grief and sorrow quite literally take the form of something monstrous and terrifying, yet oddly tender. Both a modern spin on cautionary tales of folklore and a poetic exploration of very human characters. - Joey Leyko Picciotto, Stapleton Library