Praise for Oblivion:

"Mr. Abad's prose is elastic and alive . . . In Spanish the verb 'to remember' is 'recordar,' the author reminds us, a word that derives from 'cor,' the Latin for heart. This memoir is extravagantly big-hearted. It will be stocked, in good bookstores, in the nonfiction or belles-lettres sections. A wise owner might also place a copy under the sign that more simply reads: Parenting." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"[An] admirable effort at speaking the unspeakable, at verbalizing the pain accumulated over decades, is Héctor Abad's extraordinary memoir Oblivion. It's been years since I read such a powerful meditation on loss . . . [Abad's] desire to explore the echoes of memory with meticulous care, to touch the wound of the past through lucid prose, is an act of valor." -Ilan Stavans, San Francisco Chronicle

"A tremendous and necessary book, devastatingly courageous and honest. At times I wondered how [Abad] was brave enough to write it." -Javier Cercas