City of Asylum welcomes Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi to celebrate You Glow In The Dark, an amalgam and masterful collection both haunting and humorous, and her first full-length work made available to English audiences.

The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, though Liliana’s writing casts an eerily bright spell over the wreckage. Her materials are dark, but never without her vivid sense of humor. Liliana draws just as much power from Andean cyberpunk as she does classic horror writers, and establishes a stylistic trademark in her simultaneous use of multiplicity and fragmentation. Freely mixing worlds, she uses the Bolivian Altiplano as the backdrop for an urban dystopia and blends the Aymara language with Spanish. As a result, the book is an ambitious masterpiece in nearly every aspect, seizing the reader’s attention and holding it from start to finish. You Glow in the Dark announces the arrival of a major new talent.