{"product_id":"the-summer-of-the-serpent","title":"The Summer of the Serpent","description":"\u003cp\u003eCecilia Eudave\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003etranslated by Robin Myers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor fans of Samanta Schweblin, Mónica Ojeda, and Brenda Lozano.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTold in colliding voices—children and adults, ghosts and the haunted, the living and the almost-invisible—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Summer of the Serpent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nekoto Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":52433461641490,"sku":null,"price":36.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0868\/7072\/0786\/files\/D35F801D-CA3C-4ED9-8C75-393DE8437228.jpg?v=1782843896","url":"https:\/\/nekotobooks.com\/products\/the-summer-of-the-serpent","provider":"Nekoto Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}