The Mexican author’s first book to be translated into English takes the form of a diary whose loose structure belies its artful unravelling
Here are just a few of the threads braided across the 180 pages of Loop: dwarves, swallows, rubbish trucks, notebooks, the sea, survival, sex, friendship, corruption, the future, longing, Ovid, avian transformation, bad poetry, Coriolanus, power, meaning and triviality in art, fame, significance, gang violence, convalescence, rebirth. All these themes and more are woven into a glorious tapestry of literary enthusiasms. Brenda Lozano is among several contemporary Mexican writers whose playfully innovative work has met with acclaim in the UK. And Other Stories publishes Yuri Herrera and Cristina Rivera Garza; Granta and 4th Estate have been publishing the unclassifiable Mexican-American novels of Booker-longlisted Valeria Luiselli. Let’s hope more of Lozano’s work will follow.
The narrator loves books, all kinds of books, and one of her principal themes is how therapeutic literature can be
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