"Fluent in the language of hope and loss,
Wounds Fragments Derelict offers up pieces of a love story careening towards its familiar and inevitable end. From the delicate ruins, Carlos Gabriel Kelly has crafted a new world of hard-won wisdom, where the tender roots of romance, family and his Mexican culture intertwine. Steeped in nostalgia and shaped by the rough music of contemporary life, this is a beautiful and essential first book."
– "Silvia Curbelo, author of The Secret History of Water and Falling Landscape"