Desperate to find a cure for his depression, a young man forges an odd relationship with a disgraced scientist. The descendant of a refugee tells her family story using symbols instead of names. A lonely boy from a broken family finds solace in a television show hosted by a mysterious man. In these stories, equal parts sad and funny, Pablo Piñero Stillmann’s characters lose themselves as they search for meaningful human connection. These are stories of chaos—internal and external—of chasing and escaping, of intense longing, but most of all, the nine stories in this book are portraits of people wrestling with their deepest flaws.

“Pablo Piñero Stillmann’s astonishing stories stun with their punchy sharpness and style, with their deeply layered humor and humanity. Each piece is disarmingly matter-of-fact in its patient excavation of emotional density: mental anguish, generational grief, existential resignation. I burned through Our Brains and the Brains of Miniature Sharks in a day, and you will, too:a genuinely immersive collection from a dazzling writer.”
—Joseph Scapellato, author of The Made-Up Man

“Pablo Piñero Stillmann is a master at rendering the unreliable narrator. Like a sleight-of-hand artist working the land of the short story, his characters shift and shape right before your very eyes before you understand how he’s done it. You’ll so enjoy getting taken. Step up to the main attraction, take a spin, see this marvelous show. It’s worth it. Trust me.”
—Sherrie Flick, author of Thank Your Lucky Stars and Whiskey, Etc

El cuaquerismo inundó la mente débil de un adolescente llamado Joaquín Suárez, miembro activo de la Sociedad Religiosa de los Amigos. Su abuelo, quien contrajo nupcias con Olesya —una rusa de huesos anchos—, un padre ausente del que nunca aprendió nada, su prima Nicole que viste playeras con los rostros de celebridades, y Julián Orozco, el terrorista (¿travesti?) culpable del estrés y la ansiedad que vive Joaquín, son algunos de los entrañables personajes de esta primera novela fundacional del escritor Pablo Piñero Stillmann, quien logra crear momentos narrativos que dejan entrever una fuerza potencial en su prosa y un mundo rico en detalles. Temblador es una novela singular, producto de una sólida imaginación en la que cada tanto emergen particularidades dignas de una novela poderosa.