Melchor, Fernanda 1982- creator author. Hughes, Sophie (Sophie Elizabeth) 1986- translator. text Short stories. nyu 2023 monographic eng spa

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157 pages "Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories-spiraling from real events-that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces 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 simply label them monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, 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"-- Fernanda Melchor ; translated by Sophie Hughes. n-mx--- Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico) Fiction PQ7298.423.E3795 A8813 2023 863.7 MEL/T 9781804270189 9780811228053 2022050525 DLC 221020 20231006115919.0 22835746 eng