Masterfully blends the commonplace with the fantastic, achieving the essence and vitality inherent in the best examples of this literary genre. --Selection Panel, Premio Nacional de Literatura "There's an especially lovely story of that last, skeptical kind in Cristina Fernandez Cubas's remarkable collection . . . In these six elegant stories she's most interested in the ambiguities and periodic disturbances that plague the imagination, and reports on them with the appropriate sense of awe, even of dread." --New York Times "Cubas stories create one of the most extraordinary universes in contemporary literature, where the commonplace and the unexpected, normality and the unexplainable intertwine to offer a singular vision of human experience." --abc "There is mystery almost from the first sentence of every story. Each detail shatters our inertia and forces us to reappraise a shifting panorama