for lovers of violent, sickening, beautifully written short fiction. fernanda melchor (b. Veracruz, mx) creates such vivid and raw imagery. part of my contemporary lat American fiction reading journey, she has quickly become my favorite living author
synopsis: at a gated community in Veracruz, the young neighborhood gardner starts spending time with a deranged, wealthy teenage resident and quickly becomes wrapped into a violent scheme against a woman next door
