Geography of Rebels Trilogy: The Book of Communities, The Remaining Life, and In the House of July & August

“If anyone might be profitably compared to Clarice Lispector, it might well be Maria Gabriela Llansol. This is because of the fundamentally mystical impulse that animates them both, their conception of writing as a sacred act, a prayer: their idea that it was through writing that a person can reach 'the core of being.'” — Benjamin Moser, author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

"Llansol's text . . . creates spaces where conjecture and counterfactual accounts operate freely—...