Paula Vázquez

“Since I was a girl, my life had followed the line of stitches on the back of a nervous animal, without danger or the hint of pain mattering. But now they do matter. The discovery of that shadow, of that danger, is at the core of this book”

“Working on the mechanisms of everyday life, Paula Vázquez goes beyond the hazards in life. Marriages, childhood, family, and work are the scenarios in which the characters in Women’s Luck experience transformation: The sense that ‘something is changing place in your chest, like the colours in stained-glass changing with the seasons.’ The secret, of course, is in the detail: the sugar in soup, a son’s late arrival, an employer’s imperceptible gesture, the oracular phrase uttered by a manicurist. Playing with two spaces that overlap, the feminine and southern Argentina, Paula Vázquez explores the power of fate, fortune and instinct in exceptional rhythmic and sober prose. Her sharp eye captures with precision the moment of a jump, the nuanced boundary where life collapses. No character leaves a tale by Vázquez unscathed. No reader either.” Ana María Shua.

“Paula Vázquez's book of short stories can take us to a constellation that includes Elena Ferrante, Clarice Lispector, and Silvina Ocampo. A tradition of women, estrangement, and uncertainty.” Mariel Martínez