Betsy and Ty Franklin, owners of Franklin Dairy Farm in southern Alabama, have long since buried their desire for children of their own. 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. Hurricane Season is the story of sisterhood, motherhood, and an unconventional journey to healingand the relationships that must be mended along the way. 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. The trope that unites her work, both journalistic and fictional, which reaches its apex in. Published in 2017 by Literatura Random House, it represents a harmonious melding of journalism and fiction, absent the autofiction popular among many of her contemporaries. 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. Hurricane Season ( Temporada de huracanes in Spanish) is Melchor’s second novel. In the East Pacific, it runs from May 15th to November 30th.

The Atlantic hurricane season is June 1st to November 30th. New York Public Library Best Books of 2020 Hurricane Season Information Hurricane Awareness week runs from May 25th through May 31st and is a great time to get your hurricane kit and plans up to date. Winner of the Internationaler Literaturpreis The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers

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