They Will Dream in the Garden

“Spun of nightmares and spiderwebs, This collection of stories by the Mexican author Gabriela Damián Miravete stretches from its roots in the Surrealist Movement to encompass the best and the worst of human imagination. Miravete brings us visions of worlds where animals and humans connect in mutual respect, women are valued for their abilities to empathize and collectively provide solutions, and the dead reach out to support the living in our daily worries. In addition, the collection includes the best psychotropic adventure story I have read. Every page of They Will Dream in the Garden is drenched in images of water. Every story gives us a chance to re-imagine ourselves in a world where feminism has won out against the evils of the drug trade, of patriarchy, and of machismo. If only. But we can dream.”—Kathleen Alcalá, author of Spirits of the Ordinary “In They Will Dream in the Garden, Gabriela Damián Miravete takes the speculative genres and makes them her own, so specific to Mexico but with that fairy tale quality of being anywhere or nowhere. This is a magnificent collection of short stories, with characters full of determination to invent and fashion with the tools they have, that never forgets that humans are the species that “praises beauty while destroying it.”—Matthew David Goodwin, editor of Latinx Rising and co-editor of Speculative Fiction for Dreamers