A Veracruz with a zee for zeta. The vice belt ; This is not Miami ; Queen, slave, woman ; A jail out of the movies -- Fire. Ballad of the burned man ; The house on El Estero -- Shadows. Don't mess with my boys ; A good asset ; Insomnia ; Life's not worth a thing ; Veracruz with a zee for zeta.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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