Hurricane Season: Fernanda Melchor with Yuri Herrera

One of Mexico’s most promising and prominent writers, Fernanda Melchor has created, in her debut novel Hurricane Season, a Gulf Coast noir drawing comparisons to everyone from Faulkner to Bolaño and Marlon James. NPR has called Hurricane Season "a mix of drugs, sex, mythology, small-town desperation, poverty, and superstition." The Los Angeles Review of Books describes it as "a novel that sinks like lead to the bottom of the soul and remains there, its images full of color, its characters alive and raging against their fate.” Beginning with the discovery of a corpse, by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals, a Mexican village is propelled into an investigation of how and why the murder occurred. Join Fernanda Melchor as she reads from and discusses her work, with novelist and professor Yuri Herrera, author of several works including the recent nonfiction book A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire
Buy Fernanda Melchor's book here -- bookshop.org/a/11096/97808112...
Buy Yuri Herrera's book here -- bookshop.org/a/11096/97819115...
Browse Litquake's bookstore here -- bookshop.org/shop/litquake

[@efleishermedia]

It is criminal how underappreciated this woman is, despite her getting pretty great recognition as far as modern literary fiction goes.
But this book, and the truly unique prose and structure she employs, is absolutely visionary. I never thought I'd read something by a modern author that could capture the raw horror and tension and command of prose that I found only in Cormac McCarthy's novels and some of Faulkner's. She is a master in the full sense of the word.
If there is any justice left in the art industry, she will be recognized as a new great, a living master whose work will last. I've honestly never read anything quite so alive, so infectious, both beautiful and demonic, evil and cathartic.
It's like Faulker meets Ari Aster meets a latina perspective that makes her wholly unique and unequaled

[@gustavogonzalez8303]

Two great writers. Thank you for this program.