title: Hurricane Season by: Melchor, Fernanda published: 2020-10-06 read: 2020-08 preview

About a bunch of Mexican girls, in fact about the people around a witch-like woman living in a small community there. 

The book shows violence, misogyny, and despair, offering little respite or hope. Melchor’s prose is dense, with long, unbroken sentences that overwhelmed me, making the narrative difficult to follow at times. The story itself is bleak, focusing on the brutality of human nature and the grotesque realities of life in a marginalised community. An onslaught of misery with little to redeem it.

The language use in this (translated and decorated) novel is not mine, and the mental orgies described continuously was something I could not relate to.  I can’t say anything positive about this one, and I didn’t finish it. And still it was shortlisted for the Booker prize, so, I’m totally wrong!