![]() “Birds in the Mouth” ( Pájaros en la boca), the title story of Schweblin’s second collection, is narrated by a seemingly reliable divorced father who’s worried sick about his thirteen-year-old daughter and her mysterious appetites. Then, in the turn of a phrase, she forces the reader to shift perspective she has a gift for sketching comfortable worlds and then disrupting them with images of dark, startling power. ![]() ![]() In spare, lucid prose, Schweblin demonstrates again and again that she knows the weight of what is left unsaid in the comings and goings of everyday life. Samanta Schweblin draws readers into a recognizable world inhabited by people with computers and shopping lists, good intentions and reasonable expectations. “Perhaps because reality approaches the fantastic more and more.” A generation later, another bold Argentinean writer is exploring the boundary between strange and familiar, uncanny and mundane, discovering eerie vistas along the way. “These days, my notion of the fantastic is closer to what we call reality,” Julio Cortázar observed shortly before his death. “Birds in the Mouth” by Samanta Schweblin ![]()
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