Soñarán en el jardín

It is often said that "the future is written," as if that stole all hope, but it is in writing that the subversive imagination of the possible and the indomitable memory of what is on the verge of oblivion are played out. What if, for those whom the present despises and diminishes, the future were a time of rebellion and community? In the twelve stories that make up They Will Dream in the Garden, Gabriela Damián Miravete strips fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction of the funereal shroud of the irreversible, opening a series of windows onto the unexpected and astonishing. And she does so with an insubordinate intelligence and a masterful craftsmanship in the art of storytelling. Her narrators are, like her, autonomous women who conspire to devise machines and spells of freedom in the face of the wastelands of catastrophe. Flowers and cats, water and mountains, with unruly words, undo the promise of apocalypse that tries to conquer our tomorrow and take the place of fellow humans, in a shared and horizontal world in which human beings are not the pinnacle of any evolution.