Melchor, who is already known as one of Mexico’s most talented novelists, made her debut in the United States this week, with Sophie Hughes’ English language translation of the original (Temporada de Huracanes). The sense of rage and bewilderment exhibited by 8M protestors can be found in the pages of Fernanda Melchor’s complex and astonishing novel Hurricane Season, which explores the horror of femicide through a story about an imaginary village in Mexico in which a witch is found dead. One of the youngest victims was a 7-year-old girl named Fatima, whose body was found in a plastic bag the day after she disappeared from school holding a strange woman’s hand. Since January, hundreds of women and girls have been murdered in Mexico. Last month, tens of thousands of women in Mexico took to the streets to protest the increasing trend of violence against women, chanting “ Ni una más.” Not one more.
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