Hurricane Season is a linguistic blitzkrieg - Melchor is allergic to periods and wants to explore how far she can carry a sentence without using one. Was it fear? Did someone want to protect a secret? Was it for the money she was rumored to keep in her house? A series of characters relate their lives in search of answers, and the darkness within them is as bad as the murder the town wants to solve. Now everyone wants to know who killed her and why. A group of kids discovered her body near the irrigation canals, her face damaged and her neck sliced open. There used to be a witch in a small town in Mexico, but someone killed her. A mix of drugs, sex, mythology, small-town desperation, poverty, and superstition, this novel spreads like a fungus from the dark center of the literary space where crime fiction and horror meet.
How?įernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season is so strange, wild, and foul-mouthed that I almost missed the sharp critiques embedded in the story. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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