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""[E]ach chapter is a miniature mosaic . . . Chilco is a spellbinding fever-dream, swirling with socio-political conversations, mysteries, and self-reclamations . . . Daniela Catrileo and Jacob Edelstein may have just offered the literary canon an end-of-the-world, post-capitalism, post-empire survival manual it did not necessarily expect but so desperately needs."" --Nicole Yurcaba, Southern Review of Books

""If the imposition of new ecologies was integral to the European colonization of the Americas, any process of resistance and decolonization must be ecological, too. It's in poetry and fiction that the imagination for such a thing could take root--and Catrileo understands this well. Chilco's imagistic and documentary structure, its radical mixture of poetry and fiction, is held together by the novel's emphasis on the ecology of the island . . . For her and her characters, it's not the future that flashes tantalizingly on the horizon, but the possibility of truly going home."" --Caroline Tracey, The New Republic ""Complex, lyrical and poetic . . . Catrileo accomplishes so much in fewer than 300 pages . . . Edelstein's translation handles this language play well . . . The prose alone makes it a must-read.."" --Tanya Shirazi Galvez, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ""Impressive . . . Catrileo keeps the novel afloat with razor-sharp observations on the city's exploitive colonial history and staggering decay. It's a rewarding story of chosen family."" --Publishers Weekly ""[E]ach chapter is a miniature mosaic . . . Chilco is a spellbinding fever-dream, swirling with socio-political conversations, mysteries, and self-reclamations . . . Daniela Catrileo and Jacob Edelstein may have just offered the literary canon an end-of-the-world, post-capitalism, post-empire survival manual it did not necessarily expect but so desperately needs."" --Nicole Yurcaba, Southern Review of Books

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Daniela Catrileo is a writer, artist, activist, and professor of philosophy. She is a member of the Colectivo Mapuche Rangiñtulewfü and part of the editorial team for Yene, a digital magazine featuring art, writing, and critical thought from across Wallmapu and the Mapuche diaspora. She has published two collections of poetry: Río herido (2016) and Guerra florida (2018); two chapbooks: El territorio del viaje (2017, 2022) and Las aguas dejaron de unirse a otras aguas (2020); and a book of short stories: Piñen (2019). Jacob Edelstein is a translator from the South Bay of Los Angeles, California. He earned an MFA in literary translation from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and holds a certificate from the Taos Institute. His translation of Patrimonio by Santiago Arau was published last year, and his translations of Monserrat Sepúlveda's ¡Hasta mi mama! and Daniela Catrileo's Piñen are forthcoming in 2025.

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