Temporada de huracanes / Hurricane Season (Paperback)

from sogamonk

I am not quite sure what to think of this book I read it in Spanish, but i am not completely familiar with some of the slang words used throughout the story. The story is a depiction of life in a Mexican village . Extreme poverty. Which leads to all the things she writes about. Indiscriminate sex...

from queencersei

In a small Mexican village a witch is found dead in a drainage ditch. Told through the stories of various townspeople, the violence of this one act reverberates throughout the community. This was a tough book to get through. It clocks in at just over 200 pages, but it is a tough read. The central...

from whitsunweddings

HOO BOY. Like, this is undoubtedly good but uh, it's a lot. There's a ton of specifically homophobic violence and just sexual violence in general and while I do appreciate this as a work of art (I liked the disjointed rush of it, and got over the complete absence of paragraph breaks fairly quick...

from JJbooklvr

A slice of life in a small Mexican village filled with violence and heartbreak. The Witch is murdered but we don't learn why until much later. Instead we see the town and event through the eyes of the various characters and learn just how brutal and hopeless life can seem for these people. Defini...

from Dreesie

I struggled to find the rhythm of this book. With no paragraphs and limited punctuation, it is described on the front flap as a "linguistic torrent". An excellent description for what I would call a stream-of-consciousness novel. Each chapter--and they vary in length considerably--features a diff...