The Sub Rosa reading group will meet Saturday October 31st on Halloween! at 6:30 PM to discuss Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor.
Sub Rose meets on the last Saturday of the month to discuss strange and wonderful books with a feminist slant. Books are discounted 15% in store and are currently in stock now.
About the Book
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 Bolaño’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” belongs to the Gothic-grotesque tradition of the transnational American South. The novel’s tortured self-deceptions and sprung-trap revelations evoke the stories of Flannery O’Connor, or, more recently, the neuroses of Marlon James’s Kingston…”
–The New York Times
“Hurricane Season is a linguistic blitzkrieg — Melchor is allergic to periods and wants to explore how far she can carry a sentence without using one.”
–npr
“If she has any ethical doubts about the project, she keeps them to herself; this is fiction with the brakes off.”
–The Guardian
About the Author
Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982, Fernanda Melchor is “one of Mexico’s most exciting new voices” (The Guardian). Her novel Hurricane Season was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book.