'Nervous System' burns in the mind long after one has read it, not unlike the ghosts who circumnavigate our psyches, and the winding corridors of history, to hammer us on the head with the raw truth that time is not linear. The distance between the deep past and the present, Meruane shows, is much shorter than we might be inclined to think."–The New York Times Book Review
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Nervous System is a novel both fanciful and visceral, pairing the study of the cosmos with medical mysteries and wounds on earth."
–Shelf Awareness "
Nervous System's dreamy lull belies the slow-motion horror of its plot. . . . I still feel blurrily half-drowned in Meruane's eerie, swirling poetics."
–Sarah Manguso "With black humor and hypnotic, singular prose, in
Nervous System Lina Meruane subverts the conventions that dominate discussions about literature and illness. . . . With its porous structure, dendritic like our own nervous system, this novel helps us read our own nervous, contemporary moment."
–Alia Trabucco Zerán "
Nervous System is fast, uncompromising and shimmering with intelligence."
–Sarah Moss "This is an absolutely fantastic novel. From black holes to mass graves, undiagnosable diseases and (perhaps most terrifying of all) a PhD that hasn't been written, Nervous System is frank, brave, and unsparing. The precision of Meruane's sentences will cut through you like a scalpel."
–Julianne Pachico