TY - BOOK AU - Melchor,Fernanda AU - Hughes,Sophie TI - Hurricane season SN - 9780811228039 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - New Directions Publishing Corporation KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Fiction KW - Witches KW - Dystopias KW - Mexico KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft N1 - "Originally published ... as Temporada de huracanes"--Title page verso N2 - "The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto BolaƱo's 2666 or Faulkner's greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence-real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it's a world that becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it"-- ER -