![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Hurricane Season ( Temporada de huracanes in Spanish) is Melchor’s second novel. Her first book, Aquí no es Miami (2013 This is not Miami), a collection of crónicas, served as a bridge between journalism and her first novel, Falsa liebre (2013 False hare). All of the characters are invented.” An apt forewarning that what the reader is about to discover is at best a fictionized account of reality.Ī native of Veracruz, Mexican novelist Fernanda Melchor graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana with a degree in journalism, a craft she practiced before turning to fiction writing. It reads: “Some of the events described here are real. ![]() OF THE TWO EPIGRAPHS that appear at the beginning of Hurricane Season, the second is taken from Mexican author Jorge Ibargüengoitia’s novel The Dead Girls. ![]()
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