If you too are seeking respite from this surprisingly hot Saturday, I whole-heartedly recommend spending an hour curled up in front of a fan while reading Space Invaders from cover to cover. This is the second fictional account of being a child in Pinochet’s Chile to rise through my TBR pile this year; How to Order the Universe offered one girl’s story, while Space Invaders trades dreams and memories from a chorus of children who grew up too soon against the terror of the 1980s. Unlike the precocious […]
dreams fill in where memories fail
Space Invaders by Nona Fernández, Natasha Wimmer