“Magalí Etchebarne is one of the most authentic authors I’ve read. There is no posture or solemnity in her writing. She finds humor in tragedy and understands sadness with rage and tenderness. Her style is pure freshness and intelligence.”

“These four formidable stories—that simmer slowly but fiercely, with the density and depth of radiant novels—function as Cardinal points on a map used to travel to a planet we know but have never contemplated with this much precision and sensibility, and, yes, a ragged sense of humor with a raised eyebrow. Behind La vida por delante lies a writer at her peak. A narrator that lives to tell the story, these stories.”

“La vida por delante is a book written with an authentic sense of humor that achieves the construction of complex images and characters. This is a contemporary achievement filled with acuteness, dynamism, everyday conflicts, and intimacy, all handled with intelligence and freshness but without missing the darkest and most unsettling dimensions of human connections.”

“Stories that gracefully integrate darkness into everyday life. (...) Instead of novelizing the harshest realities of the pandemic and doting them with false depth, Etchebarne is skillful, because she strips it down to the thing that is hardest to pinpoint: the fragility of bodies and relationships, an awareness that it’s difficult to know what has broken”