This is Not Miami

Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (trans.)

This is Not Miami
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Text Publishing
Country
Australia
Published
4 April 2023
Pages
192
ISBN
9781922790200

This is Not Miami

Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (trans.)

Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers twelve devastating stories that spiral from real events. These cronicás—a genre unique to Latin American writing, blending reportage and fiction—probe the motivations of murderers and misfits, compelling us to understand or even empathise with them. Melchor is like a ventriloquist, using a range of distinctive voices to evoke the smells, sounds and words of this fascinating world that includes mistreated women, damaged families, refugees, prisoners and even a beauty queen.

As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, Fernanda Melchor’s masterful stories show how the violent and shocking events that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.

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