Book, Seams Out[LS]

You have a brave book in your hands. As the title suggests, Seams Out sheds light on what is usually hidden, even in the almost always naked literature. And he does it with such beauty and skill that it's hard to believe it's a debut work. In the short story Bonita de face, a narrator branded by a chubby man tells, with captivating honesty, about her not-so-delightful existence, sweating in plastic bags and roasting herself in girdles to reach a standard that, deep down, she knows, she will never achieve. to achieve. In The Two Evas, we see an unexpected love emerge among other discoveries of youth, in a carnival group. With a powerful, almost synesthetic language, Squilanti throws us into the middle of the revelry, and shamelessly deals with fluids, insecurities and fantasies that we carry not only at Carnival. In Us, a boy asks his grandmother for help to untie the knots on his sneakers. This banal situation becomes a framework for rich reflections as it unfolds near a photo frame with a photo of grandmother and grandfather, setting a precedent for the other meaning of the word us. It is this type of combination, of subtlety and strength, that the twenty short stories in this book are made of. Outward seams suggest the opposite, the poorly assembled, the hidden mechanism that escapes to stain the surface. However, with each narrative, we realize that these finishes and loose threads, in addition to being inevitable, are what gives color and texture, and therefore grace, to the fabric of life.