To grow, love and live is like diving into the depths of the ocean. Craved for love, the characters in these stories—most of them women—navigate the world hooked to their own desires and to the signals given by others: signals that show the way, that announce calm waters or the danger of wreckage.

Intimate, subtle, reflexive, the sixteen stories that make up this book speak of the fruitless search for love, and confirm Ms Garland’s deep knowledge of the way desire unfolds. With refined precision, she perseveres in capturing human nature, as elusive as the architecture of the ocean.

A teen ager witnesses how her father flirts with her best friend right in front of her own mother’s eyes; an accident during a family’s vacation shatters a prejudiced woman’s deepest beliefs; three sisters stay under the care of a perverse nanny; attraction and repulse coexist in a couple’s sexual life.

One might say that the stories in La arquitectura del océano are narrative echo sounders that descend into the unpredictable depths of the female psyche. Felipe Fernández, ADN Cultura, La Nación

The book presents sixteen subtle, intimate, profound and reflective stories. La Mañana de Córdoba

Subtle, gentle, like a whisper. Such is the journey through the sixteen stories that make up La arquitectura del océano (…). Love and sex, but above all desire, find their place amongst the words and stories. Juan Carlos Antón, La Prensa

Eager for love, the protagonists of these stories navigate the world, attentive to their desires and to the signals sent out by others: gestures that allow one to guess at calm waters or the possibility of running aground. La Gaceta de Tucumán

(…) A woman obsessed with a younger colleague, three sisters left in the care of a wicked maid, an accident that throws a family on holiday into turmoil—all told with the precision and subtlety of someone searching for extraordinary signs in the everyday. And finding them. Eugenia Zicavo, El Planeta

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