You Glow in the Dark

The seven stories ofYou Glow in the Darkunfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzis writingat once sleek and dense, otherworldly and intensely specificcasts an eerily bright spell over the wreckage. Some stories seem to be set in a near future; all are superbly executed and yet hard to pin down; they often leave the reader wondering: was that realistic or fantastic? Colanzi draws power from Andean cyberpunk just as much as from classic horror writers, and this daring is matched by her energizing simultaneous use of multiplicity and fragmentationthe book’s stylistic trademarks. Freely mixing worlds, she uses the Bolivian altiplano as the backdrop for an urban dystopia and blends Aymara with Spanish. Colanzi never gets bogged down; she can be brutal and direct or light-handed and subtle. Her materials are dark, but always theres the lift of her vivid sense of humor.You Glow in the Darkseizes the reader’s attention (from the title on) and holds it: this is a book that announces the arrival of a major new talent.

Paperback, Feb 6th 2024