In Lengua lanzadera enhebrada, Lilvia Soto is the master weaver of words and stories that challenge us with a variegated tapestry of humanity through all of its dark, violent and unjust manifestations across time, pantheons of gods and imperial geopolitical systems from Ancient Greece to the Americas. And just when the reader assumes to be on a linear course, Lilvia Soto introduces quantum physics, genetics, neuro-science and the infinite constellation of the World Wide Web as metaphor, “the sphere without a circumference whose center is everywhere.” An epic work, monumental as an undertaking, Lengua lanzadera enhebrada is invariably grounded through the feminine voice that carries us through to the final hope for mankind in Homo amans.

—Nora Nickerson