“...a grand novel, huge (...) Caputo could have turned in a great book about a mother abandoning her son. But what makes this novel grow a few centimeters more is the transcendental detail that the mother doesn’t abandon her son, but rather says goodbye and leaves. (...) In her goodbye to her son, in what breaks us as she doesn’t call, there is something brave, cruel, and necessary.”

“Estrella madre puts forth an extraordinary poetics of precariousness and resistance. Its ultra fragile characters come together to reduce their loneliness and so avoid the final collapse of their lives. (...) Giuseppe Caputo is able to create a powerful social map of postponement from the most surprising imagination, the precision of his images, and the notable expressiveness of his writing. Humor, desire, anguish, and debt circulate incessantly, embedded in bodies that are endowed with a necessary senselessness. A lightning-fast renewal of literary signs places the act of reading of this novel in an urgent contemporary space that serves to understand all times.”

“Between the picaresque, humor, and a fable, Giuseppe Caputo has written a novel filled with truth and poetry.”

“Estrella madre allows us to access the amplification of the entire macabre and vibrant universe of a necessary author, one-of-a-kind in our literature.”