**This surreal, horror-tinged, Guadalajara-set work of Latin American “literature of the unusual” is a kaleidoscopic descent into the small violences and hidden horrors of one sweltering summer, forming a coil of vignettes that slither under the skin for a strange, deeply human portrait of memory, myth, and family.For fans of Samanta Schweblin, Mónica Ojeda, and Brenda Lozano.**Guadalajara, Mexico, 1977. In a quiet residential neighborhood, children witness things they can ...

A horror-infused, polyphonic work about the violence and cruelty seething in a late-seventies Guadalajara neighborhoodAt a traveling fair, a young girl visiting with her family will ask a "serpent woman" to tell her future. The serpent woman's answer is cryptic, but back in their neighborhood, the lives of the girl and her sister will be haunted by a ghost and a boa as their world shimmers between the real and unreal.The Summer of the Serpent gives...