“…This is a book of gorgeous language, so rich and self-assured I found myself re-reading sentences just for their music... The story itself is a tale of a woman–a young, white, North American actress–who finds a seemingly abandoned child in Cuba. In her well-meaning efforts to care for the child and her visions of giving it “a better life,” we see her moral ambiguity, and possibly a kind of cultural arrogance. As she bonds with the child, she leaves a trail of wreckage in her wake. But what’s more interesting, at least to me, is what we come to understand about the narrator through her first-person subjectivity. In the tradition of Huck Finn, these are truths the narrator cannot see in herself… I highly recommend it.”

Dylan Tomine is the author of Closer to the Ground, published by Patagonia Books.