Hurricane Season

"Time of Hurricanes" is a novel by Mexican writer Fernanda Melchor, shortlisted for the international Booker Prize. Terrifying yet surprisingly real, this novel begins with a murder. In a small Mexican village, the witch had long been known only by that name; and when a gang of local boys discovered her body rotting at the bottom of a canal, it stirred up an already uneasy population. The witch is dead. The news flies fast, and rumors slither through the Mexican village—everyone asks who is involved in the witch’s death. The reader is set to hear several stories, each involving the murder in some way. And to try to look into this world without fear—boiling over with cruelty, violence, pain, and hatred. Fernanda Melchor has created a true poetic masterpiece, leaving a aftertaste of genuine destruction, yet revealing some untamed, wild beauty.