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Book Synopsis“This posthumous translation of Rosales, a Cuban-American writer who committed suicide in 1993, delivers a raw, powerful story set in a Miami home for the mentally ill… It’s a frightening, nihilistic cousin of
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”—
Publishers WeeklyTrade Review"Perfect for the pool and beyond." -- Joy Tipping - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"Confronting an impassive world, Guillermo Rosales has left us this painful, violent, and lyrical testament." -- Le Figaro
"The characters in the halfway house are tragically beautiful and unforgettable." -- Susan Salter Reynolds - Los Angeles Times
"It seems almost impossible to find so much cruelty in barely one hundred pages; but it’s just that behind these terrible and moving one hundred pages there are thousands of pages, millions of sentences, that reveal an entirely destroyed universe. Indispensable." -- Revista Leer
"The real brilliance is…its portrait of a man...reduced to the very cruelty he had tried to avoid." -- Jascha Hoffman - The National
"This book is a shot of light through the darkness of human misery." -- Jeff Waxman - Three Percent
"A masterful kick-in-the-teeth…savagely beautiful." -- Bill Marx - The World, Public Radio International
"Hope inevitably implodes into disappointment, and love…curdles with the possibility of destruction." -- Abigail Deutsch - The Literary Review
"We are fortunate to have this award-winning book finally available to English-speaking readers. Very powerful and gripping." -- Bessy Reyna - Multicultural Review
"With
The Halfway House, Rosales joins the pantheon of the very best Cuban writers, José Lezama Lima, Pinera, and Reinald Arenas." -- Thomas McGonigle - Review of Contemporary Fiction
