This is Not Miami av Fernanda Melchor

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<p>Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, <em>This Is Not Miami</em> delivers a series of devastating stories ¿ spiralling from real events ¿ that bleed together reportage and the author¿s rich and rigorous imagination. These <em>cr¿nicas</em> ¿ a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative non-fiction and novelistic forms ¿ probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them ¿ and even empathize ¿ despite our wish to disdain them as monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels <em>Hurricane Season </em>and <em>Paradais</em>, and once again brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes, Fernanda Melchor¿s masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.</p>