![]() The story then zooms into a complicated familial strife. When the Witch’s murder leaves the town without a bogeywoman, the local gossips fill the resulting blame vacuum with vicious hearsay. Rumored to horde gold coins, perform abortions and host sex parties, the town’s Witch embodies a veritable scapegoat at which the villagers can aim their ire. Set for release by New Directions on March 31, the story investigates the Witch’s murder through the stories of degenerate characters that populate the small town outside of Veracruz, Mexico. Translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes, the book’s profanity-laden pages sustain its sense of dismal fury. ![]() In chapter-long chunks of text, Melchor illustrates a troubled town’s response to this socially fraught incident of foul play. Mexico’s newest luminary author delivers a supernaturally charged murder investigationĪscendent Mexican author Fernanda Melchor makes her English-language translation debut with “Hurricane Season,” a whirling novel that rages ahead from the first page, when a group of boys discovers the town’s Witch floating dead in a drainage ditch. ![]()
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