While it is a fictional town, my friends from Veracruz confirmed that this is how people talk there and I also can confirm that that is how I’ve heard older relatives talk as well. The language used in the book is very specific to the region of Veracruz where the book is set. Melchor takes extra care on when she uses graphic language vs not and she also chooses how each character speaks with intention. There is a lot of violence within these pages: emotional, physical, and sexual, but it is not done in a nonsensical way. What follows the first chapter where she is found is 7 more chapters, each narrated by a different person related to how the Bruja ended up in that canal.Įach chapter unfolds a new layer to the complexity of each character, telling us more details about their lives and also about their perspective on why the Bruja ended up dead. The body belongs to the Bruja, or witch, of the town and who has a lot of rumors surrounding her life, her powers, everything about her really. Melchor writes a book that immerses the reader in a small, poor town in Veracruz where a body is found by a group of kids in a canal. Temporada de Huracanes was the pick for this month for the book club with my friends from Mexico.
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