Nona Fernandez's Space Invaders
This is a short but powerful novel about a group of friends who are haunted by dreams and memories of one of their childhood classmates in 1980s Chile, a girl who disappeared suddenly, and whose father was part of the Pinochet regime. (Kind of a Virgin Suicides vibe, but more interesting.) I did wish some parts of this were a little bit more fleshed out, but that would maybe defeat the purpose from a literary perspective. Anyway, a knockout of a book, and one of the best book covers I've seen in a long time. A/A-.
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