A review by karp76
Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco

4.0

This was a tale that grew in its telling. It begins in a vague and undetermined way, and it left me as such. A minimalist work whose stature grows with the things left unsaid – names and times and places, all set before us, uncharted and undetermined left for us to color them, enrich them, give life to the unspoken, the undetermined, the intentional quiet. There is desperation and despair here, make no doubt. Despite this stark world, of forbidden secrets, fleeing to freedom, the evil pursuant, the frail friend, Carrasco imbues this shattered world and the hopeless characters that inhabit, with hope. It is subtle and secret, just enough to put one foot in front of the other, to continue, to turn the page and survive.