Hurricane Season
by Fernanda Melchor
"The Witch is dead in the canal — and a whole village did it."
When children find the body of the local Witch floating in an irrigation canal, Melchor spirals through the village of La Matosa voice by voice, rage by rage, to show how poverty, machismo and rumour made a murder inevitable. Torrential, furious prose — one of the most intense reading experiences in modern fiction.
Worth knowing
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and adapted into a Netflix film. Fair warning: this is the deepest end of our October pool.
