"Guadalupe Nettel yet again walks into uncertain territories in these mysterious stories. There's secrets everywhere, she says, especially in the most intimate and familiar things. As a writer, she never loses that feeling of 'something is not quite right, ' but she explores that danger with calm and with beauty." --Mariana Enríquez, author of OUR SHARE OF NIGHT and THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED

"I adored this collection, it spread its roots out within me. Nettel is an extraordinary writer." --Daisy Johnson, author of THE HOTEL

"A striking and compelling collection that searches for the extraordinary within the ordinary. Each narrative veers seamlessly from the mundane to the existential; the writing is deft, and unsettling prose imbues the work with a profound resonance. I loved these stories." --Elaine Feeney, author of ALL THE GOOD THINGS YOU DESERVE

"Haunting . . . A heart-racingly intense journey." --New York Times Book Review on STILL BORN

"Blurs the lines between parents and caregivers, between family members and strangers, between mother and not-mother . . . features deep and tumultuous relationships . . . Still Born argues . . . that, at certain moments, it is incumbent upon everyone to presume, to pry, to push your way into the hallway. You don't have to be a mother-in fact, maybe you shouldn't be. But you have to do something for whomever you find in, or near, your nest." --The New Yorker on STILL BORN

"With a twisty, enveloping plot, the novel poses some of the knottiest questions about freedom, disability, and dependence-all in language so blunt it burns." --International Booker Prize Judges on STILL BORN