{"product_id":"summer-of-the-serpent","title":"Summer of the Serpent","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor fans of Samanta Schweblin, Mónica Ojeda, and Brenda Lozano. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGuadalajara, Mexico, 1977. In a quiet residential neighborhood, children witness things they can never forget: a serpent girl weeping in a carnival glass box, a neighbor who dangles his dog from a tree, and a ghost who returns night after night, desperate to tell its story. Meanwhile, the grown-ups drift through the season half oblivious, their spirits eroding as the relentless summer wears on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold in colliding voices--children and adults, ghosts and the haunted, the living and the almost-invisible--\u003ci\u003eThe Summer of the Serpent\u003c\/i\u003e is a prismatic portrait of the past, where memory is shot through with myth. Each narrator offers a fragment of the truth, until the stories twist together into a shape as elusive and mesmerizing as the boa constrictor that winds its way through the neighborhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStrange yet deeply human, this brilliantly fragmented novel captures the moment when childhood innocence begins to corrode--and how those memories can coil through a lifetime.","brand":"Robin Myers, Cecilia Eudave","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47608766497004,"sku":"9781641295826","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781641295826.jpg?v=1778212827","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/summer-of-the-serpent","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}