"This is a book for both fans and scholars of Pedro Juan Gutiérrez: presenting nuanced interpretations of this scintillating Cuban writer's major novels, extensive context about the economic crisis of the Cuban Special Period, and as a bonus, a long interview with Gutiérrez from 2022, Lori Oxford's book opens new avenues of understanding Gutiérrez's fiction and makes a compelling case for why we should keep reading his work." --Anke Birkenmaier, Indiana University Bloomington "Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Dirty Realism: Reinventing Cuban Spaces is a comprehensive exploration of Gutiérrez's narrative writing since the international success of Trilogía sucia de La Habana in 1998. Through close engagement with this writing and with a wide range of ideas and sources, including an extensive interview with Gutiérrez, the book traces networks connecting his literary work and persona to two decades of change in Cuba. Taking as a primary conceptual thread the relation between utopian, dystopian and heterotopian thinking, it casts new light on Gutiérrez's particular brand of dirty realism, and stands as a welcome contribution to scholarship on his work." --Esther Whitfield, Brown University.