'Hurricane Season is a Gulf Coast noir from four characters' perspectives, each circling a murder more closely than the last. Melchor's long, snaking sentences make the book almost literally unputdownable, shifting our grasp of key events by continually creeping up on them from new angles. 'A brutal portrait of small-town claustrophobia, in which machismo is a prison and corruption isn't just institutional but domestic, with families broken by incest and violence. Melchor's writing voice, a composite of anger and anguish, is entirely her own.' 'This is the Mexico of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian or Roberto Bolano's 2666, where the extremes of evil create a pummeling, hyper-realistic effect. Samanta Schweblin, author of Fever Dream 'Fernanda Melchor has a powerful voice, and by powerful I mean unsparing, devastating, the voice of someone who writes with rage, and has the skill to pull it off.' Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School Most recent fiction seems anaemic by comparison.' This is a work of both mystery and critique. This is an inquiry into the sexual terrorism and terror of broken men. 'Brutal, relentless, beautiful, fugal, Hurricane Season explores the violent mythologies of one Mexican village and reveals how they touch the global circuitry of capitalist greed.
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