“At one point he takes a nap, the ship resting atop his chest. Buoyed by his breath, the ship lifts gently up and down, as if carried on the wave-beat of the sea. It is a striking moment in which the oceanic and the body are reminiscent of each other, each composed primarily of water, each carrying complex and reiterative histories of transit.”

Rebecca Schneider, Back and Forth and Back:
The Many Returns of Emilio Rojas.