praise for
SLASH AND BURN

“Slash and Burn is an incisive look into the lasting wounds of El Salvador’s Civil War. It is a tale of generational healing and resilience centered on its women. Hernández is a calm, cutting voice on how what is broken must be put back together.”

Ryan Gattis

“There is a surreal, dreamlike quality to this challenging story… it abounds with memories of violence told in a third person bordering on the first, both because of the randomness of events depicted and the naivety and warmth of the language that recounts the almost childlike aspects of the war, always through eyes and a voice that are, above all, feminine.”

The Spanish Bookstage, “Weekly Choice”

“Slash and Burn reimagines the country through the voices of mothers, daughters, and wives. The female gaze cuts sharp in this retelling.”

Gabriela Alemán

“Claudia Hernández’s extraordinary novel Slash and Burn has an embattled, unsentimental narrative style, with swift shifts of point of view to voices that are often telling her characters what isn’t possible, and a future tense that dramatizes the (im)possibilities for her and her family. Slash and Burn is destined to become a classic.”

Mauro Javier Cardenas