5/20/2023 0 Comments The hurricane season book![]() ![]() Forceful, frenzied, violent, and uncompromising, Melchor’s depiction of a town ogling its own destruction is a powder keg that ignites on the first page and sustains its intense, explosive heat until its final sentence. The murder mystery (complete with a mythical locked room in the Witch’s house) is simply a springboard for Melchor to burrow into her characters’ heads: their resentments, secrets, and hidden and not-so-hidden desires. Next is Munra, Luismi’s stepfather, who was also present at the Witch’s house then Norma, a girl who flees her abusive stepfather and ends up briefly settling with Luismi and lastly Brando, who finally reveals the details of the Witch’s death. First is Yesenia, a young woman who despises her addict cousin, Luismi, and one day sees him carrying the Witch from her home with another boy, Brando. Each chapter is a single, cascading paragraph and follows a different townsperson. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. ![]() The Witch is a local legend: she provides the women of the town with cures and spells, while for the men she hosts wild, orgiastic parties at her house. The story opens with a group of boys discovering the body of the Witch in a canal. ![]() Melchor’s English-language debut is a furious vortex of voices that swirl around a murder in a provincial Mexican town. ![]()
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