The University of Arizona Press

Chicago Review of Books says Extended Stay, by Juan Martinez, is one of the Most Anticipated Chicago Books of 2023! Martinez teaches at Northwestern University, but his novel takes place in Las Vegas.

Haunting and visceral, Extended Stay uses the language of body horror and the gothic to comment on the complicated relationship between the Latinx undocumented experience and capitalism, the erasure of those living and working on the margins, the heavy toll exacted by memory, and the queasy permeability of boundaries that separate the waking world from the world of dreams.

Martinez says, “I walked the length of Las Vegas and interviewed the people who worked and hustled along the way; those interviews very much informed the novel.”