Michelle Gil-Montero

“As the marafona’s confessions and non-confessions cross-write the story, far more interesting than ‘what (really) happened’ are the fascinations of an interpretive universe in which contradictions pile up. I love how this piling, rather than feel futile or overwhelming-in-a-bad-way, pulls us closer to the language. Death and rebirth, gods and gobs, seafoam and formaldehyde, faits [facts] and fates are hopelessly tied together in a “tangle web webtangle” of Paraguayan lace. [. . .] [T]he real drama is the language/s, how it twists to permit so much contradiction.“