Death Takes Me

Praise

Praise for Death Takes Me

“Death Takes Me puts a subversive twist on the traditional serial killer story.”—Time, “Most Anticipated Books of 2025”

“[An] unforgettable literary puzzle . . . seamlessly conveyed in Rivera Garza’s incisive and poetic style. Life and literature become one in this singular achievement.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Praise for Cristina Rivera Garza

“Cristina Rivera Garza is a writer of startling luminosity.”—Idra Novey, author of Those Who Knew

“One of the most fiercely original literary voices from Latin America.”—Ignacio M. Saìnchez Prado, Los Angeles Review of Books

“Cristina Rivera Garza is an explosive writer yet to be fully accounted for in English. She is an insubordinate stylist, a skilled creator of atmospheric and haunting language.”—Lina Meruane, author of Seeing Red

“To read Rivera Garza’s work is to experience a visceral relationship with the written word.”—Sightlines

“Cristina Rivera Garza does not respect what is expected of a writer, of a novel, of language. She is an agitator.”—Yuri Herrera, author of Kingdom Cons

“In writing about Mexican violence, misogyny, natural disasters, pandemics, art and literature, resistance, about Mexican women, US Latinx, and about herself, Cristina Rivera Garza writes about the universal conditions of our world today. She does so with prose unmatched for its sharp intelligence, poetry, clarity, empathy, liveliness, passion. She is a genius, ‘our’ necessary voice.”—Francisco Goldman, author of The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle