Tor.com calls Extended Stay by Juan Martinez a “Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for January and February 2023.”
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.
“This looks to be both thematically resonant and unsettling in the best possible way,” says Tobias Carroll from Tor.com.