“Open Letter has made its reputation by finding and publishing some of the best foreign-language writers in the world. Can Xue, the pseudonym of Deng Xiaohua, is the latest writer to contribute to Open Letter’s quick ascension. In her collection Vertical Motion, Can Xue establishes a trippy and surreal world: apartments float high in the air, and large owls and men with lacquer-black skin haunt troubled people.”

Armando Celayo’s full review is available online, over at World Literature Today.

And you can read more about Can Xue’s Vertical Motion right here.