“The author’s direct and balanced prose in these six awkward stories manage to fill us with a singular restlessness when we get to know the characters that inhabit them, as the stories speak of that other person we also are and that we hide from the others. Furthermore, they speak of certain manias, obsessions and even the disorders that we might suffer… As readers we remain alert—these stories chase and catch us.”

“Nettel imposes her serene and sober narration over the harshness of the stories. Her courage comes from the way she brings the lens in closer and talks about what many leave in the shadows.”

“Even though they are written in a classical style, these stories pursue a somewhat unhealthy objective: to disturb.”

“One must have a lot of talent and aesthetic courage (and ethical courage, as they always go together) to wrap a book so challenging under the rules of fiction.”

“Strange stories that are as disturbing as they are luminous, by one the most important voices in Mexican literature.”

“Six stories of difficult love, six stories presided by ambiguity and mystery, by strangeness as a means to approach romantic relationships, or, at least, human relationships. Each plot is an eccentricity, an unusual episode, a sinuous path that introduces us into the most disturbing aspects of the human mind.”

“A fine scrutinizer of the intimate world in all its contradictions, its most surprising and unspeakable details, Nettel is unrivaled when it comes to exasperating tensions…There lies the strength of this collection that sparkles with charm. Like an upside down fairy tale.”