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A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of 2020 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 on new 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 Bolano’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.
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0an uncomfortable, intense, grotesque book, centred in a Mexican town riddled with poverty and machismo. it's a spiralling read, perspectives changing quickly and often, with barely any full stops, and no paragraph breaks, making you fall into this land. it felt dizzying at times, and confusing, piecing together all the points of this mystery, but this sometimes felt suffocating and it was hard to hold any importance in the words used when the whole book was lyrical and feverish.
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