![]() ![]() Her first book, Aquí no es Miami (This is not Miami, 2013), collected various nonfictional pieces on politics and violence in her native state of Veracruz, earning her a place in the revered tradition of crónicas, a major genre in Mexican culture combining journalism, indirect narrative styles, and essayism, popularized by writers like Carlos Monsiváis and Elena Poniatowska. Prior to the release of the novel, Melchor was already considered a rising star. ![]() Critics praised the book’s forceful prose and compelling narrative, noting how Melchor masterfully taps into disparate literary traditions-among them, noir detective novels and modernist psychological prose-to create something very much her own. ![]() When it was originally released in Spanish in 2017, Fernanda Melchor’s Temporada de huracanes ( Hurricane Season) quickly became the Mexican novel of the year. ![]()
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