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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
4.0
Whew. Everyone warned me this is a brutal book, but I think of myself as strong enough for the unfiltered worst. I was humbled.
Halfway through, I saw that people compared the author to Bolaño, who is just too heartless for me, who feels too close to reveling in violence. I started to despair. Especially because where Bolaño takes everything a little too far, Melchor's writing is painfully real -- with writing like this you can start believing that life is just endless cycles of violence.
And yet. There is just the faintest glimmer of heart here. Finally each battered body shows some small tenderness. The final short chapter was astonishing.
God this book is so sad. Everyone deserved better. It's so sad.
Halfway through, I saw that people compared the author to Bolaño, who is just too heartless for me, who feels too close to reveling in violence. I started to despair. Especially because where Bolaño takes everything a little too far, Melchor's writing is painfully real -- with writing like this you can start believing that life is just endless cycles of violence.
And yet. There is just the faintest glimmer of heart here. Finally each battered body shows some small tenderness. The final short chapter was astonishing.
God this book is so sad. Everyone deserved better. It's so sad.