A review by gabeisnotanangel
War by Candlelight: Stories by Daniel Alarcon

4.0

Beautiful in their sparcity, there is a bareness to Alarcon's writing that is haunting. Some might consider them unemotional but I think that the bareness and raw aspect of the stories makes the physical and ideological violence of the scenes more pressing, more close. What some may see as distance, I would argue is a stripping down of language to convey the way that violence strips down one's humanness. Highly recommend.