A review by marywahlmeierbracciano
The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

The Twilight Zone, which reads like true crime and is inspired by true events, is a distressing but essential story of political violence in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship, juxtaposed with modern life and allusions to American media.  Fernández dives deep into the multiplicity of reality in her poetic imagination of the lives of the disappeared and their loved ones.  Frequent leaps between timelines illustrate the repetition of history, the unfathomable horrors of what happened, the mysteries that still remain, the gaslighting, the candles still burning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Stalking, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Torture