I enjoyed this a lot - Gomez talks about revisiting Octavia Butler's work as she was writing this novel & I can definitely see the affinity. In some ways, I think this novel is sort of like Butler's Wild Seed would have been if Doro didn't exist. Gilda wants love, wants connection, wants future.

Getting to the chapter on 2020 was jarring and then 2050 was even more so. The imagination of apocalypse written from 1991 contrasted with the reality of the apocalypse in actual 2020 was strange and something I still need to sit with.