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    In 'Hurricane Season,' Words Swirl Wild And Dark

    Fernanda Melchor's poetic, foul-mouthed new novel sits on the border between crime fiction and horror: A woman known as the Witch has been murdered, and her neighbors want to know who did it and why/
    by Gabino Iglesias Apr 02, 2020 3 minutes

    Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season is so strange, wild, and foul-mouthed that I almost missed the sharp critiques embedded in the story. A mix of drugs, sex, mythology, small-town desperation, poverty, and superstition, this novel spreads like a fungus from the dark center of the literary space where crime fiction and horror meet.

    There used to be a witch in a small town in Mexico, but someone killed her. A group of kids discovered her body near the irrigation canals, her

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