Bariloche is the story of a garbage collector from Buenos Aires obsessed with jigsaw puzzles and haunted by memories of first love. I was struck by the narrative’s dual focus of, on the one hand, actual deterioration (garbage) as it mirrors the protagonist’s spiritual depletion and physical exhaustion, and, on the other, the lyrical (represented in the rural scenes on the puzzles) as it parallels the protagonist’s idealized memories. I knew I wanted the cover to represent this polarity.