Animals at the End of the World

Gloria Susana Esquivel teaches in the creative writing master’s program at the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in BogotÁ and has one published book of poems, El lado salvaje. This is her first novel.Robin Myers is a Mexico City–based translator, poet, and author of Conflations/Amalgama, among other collections published in Mexico, Argentina, and Spain.

[Esquivel's] words are stripped to the bone, and they glisten-or perhaps I should say Myers’s words, which can be best praised through negation: as a native Spanish speaker, I’ll browse through originals when reading their English translations (even great ones will flounder at times), but I didn’t feel the need to do that once here. Myers has spawned her own mighty beast. (Asymptote) [Esquivel] offers a kids' eye view on a fragmented family, but she also uses her young protagonist to explore the blinders of race and class that exist within her world. [Animals at the End of the World is] a meticulously written book that doesn't feel meticulous at all, adding to its charm. (Words Without Borders) Animals at the End of the World is a poetic and moving coming-of-age story that lingers long after its final page. (Latin American Literature Today) [Animals at the End of the World] is a tour de force that stands out as the voice of a generation, offering shrewd insights into a country, an era, and a cohort marked forever. (Word Literature Today)

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