"My favorite of the new Mexican writers." John Powers, NPR Fresh Air
"Short, suspenseful . . . outlandish and heartbreaking." John Williams, New York Times
"Herrera packs his slim book with the sex, booze and nihilism of a better Simenon novella." Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
"The Transmigration of Bodies takes the conventions of gumshoe fiction and transfers them to a charnel-house world that makes nonsense of the genre's habitual moral opposites." Bookforum
"Herrera's metaphors grasp the freedom, and the alarming disorientation, of transition and translation." Maya Jaggi, The Guardian
"Yuri Herrera's tiny, beautiful novels each conjure myth and metaphor from a contemporary experience in a precise location, transformed by archaic-colloquial prose." Lorna Scott-Fox, Times Literary Supplement
"Playful, prophetic, unnerving books that deserve to be read several times." Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
"Darkly satisfying." James Lasdun, The Guardian
"Yuri Herrera combines a dreamlike setting with vigorous style." Anthony Cummins, Times Literary Supplement
