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—Myriam Gurba, author of Mean

“Every story in this luminous collection creates its own lush, beautiful, and utterly singular universe. Carribean Fragoza reaches deep into the bodies and souls of her subjects, and writes about desire and fear like few other writers can. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You will establish Fragoza as an essential and important new voice in American fiction.”

—Héctor Tobar, author of The Barbarian Nurseries

“The magic realism of Eat the Mouth That Feeds You is thoroughly worked into the fabric of the stories themselves, strung through the warp and weft of family, community, and what it means as a child, as a mother, as a woman, to both belong and not belong. These are powerful stories about making one’s way, and about the things that keep a grip on you no matter where you are, even if you’re dead.”

—Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World

“Fragoza’s prose, a switchblade of a magical glow, cauterizes as it cuts. In a setting of barren citrus trees, poison-filled balloons, and stuccos haunted by the menace of the past, Eat the Mouth That Feeds You reinvents the sunny noir.”

—Salvador Plascencia, author of The People of Paper

“I felt this collection deep in my bones. Like the Chicanx women whose voices she centers, Carribean Fragoza’s writing doesn’t flinch. It is sharp and dream-like, tender-hearted and brutal, carved from the violence and resilience of generations past and present.”

—Natalia Sylvester, author of Everyone Knows You Go Home

“Carribean Fragoza’s writing is passionate and precise…gorgeously goth.”

—Yxta Maya Murray, Poets and Writers Magazine

“Carribean Fragoza goes deep. This book makes central the lives of women, whether sourced locally or rooted in Mexico, whether alive or dead to the world, surrealistic or hyperrealistic, in the flesh or as spirits centuries old. This is storytelling that astonishes, passing through industrialized lives of women like gamma rays or cosmic rays—and I was not only astonished, I was moved. Kafka said, ‘A book must be an axe for the frozen sea that is within us.’ Be careful how you heft this book—it’s sharp as obsidian, this axe.”

—Sesshu Foster, author of Atomik Aztex

“This collection establishes Carribean Fragoza as a new American voice to be reckoned with—her invigoratingly imaginative stories are nothing short of brilliant.”

—J. Ryan Stradal, author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota

“Carribean Fragoza’s writing is exciting and alive. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You gripped me from page one.”

—Emma Ramadan, Riffraff Bookstore, Providence, RI

“Fragoza’s surreal and gothic stories, focused on Latinx, Chicanx, and immigrant women’s voices, are sure to surprise and move readers.”

—Zoe Ruiz, The Millions

“The writing is sharp and unexpected, and full of vivid turns.”

—David Ulin, Alta Magazine