“Opening Diving Board is like waking in a white room with no doors or windows. A question resonates as one reads these stories: How did Tomás Downey place me here so perfectly, and why is it that I don’t want to leave?” — Agustina Bazterrica

“Bizarro fiction is not a genre: it’s a disturbing variant that hides a vague threat, that leaves the reader feeling something between awe and unease. Tomás Downey is an expert in this type of story: cursed childhoods, fantastical plants, sudden deaths, cruel plagues. Via the most brutal realism and the most surprising fantasy, his stories reveal a strange world and a solid storyteller [who writes] with remarkable control, but is capable of moments of intense madness.”

— Mariana Enríquez