The Summer of the Serpent

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

This surreal, horror-tinged, Guadalajara-set work of Latin American “literature of the unusual” is a kaleidoscopic descent into the small violences and hidden horrors of one sweltering summer, forming a coil of vignettes that slither under the skin for a strange, deeply human portrait of memory, myth, and family. For fans of Samanta Schweblin, Mónica Ojeda, and Brenda Lozano. Guadalajara, Mexico, 1977. In a quiet residential neighborhood, children witness things they can never forget: a serpent