{"product_id":"the-summer-of-the-serpent","title":"The Summer of the Serpent","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSummer of the Serpent\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA The Millions Most Anticipated Book of Spring\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book of Summer\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Spine-tingling, atmospherically uneasy, disturbingly twisty, and more . . . Eudave's novel is more concerned with the evil that coexists just beneath the surface . . . what causes cruelty, the evolutionary drive of gratification, the difference between our real lives and how we perceive ourselves, and the ways we strive to cling to life without fading into irrelevance or dissatisfaction.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Words Without Borders\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Satisfying and thought-provoking . . . Readers will be grateful for the introduction to this distinctive writer.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Publishers Weekly \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A hypnotic and transporting read and a powerful, impressionistic portrait of a place and time.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--CrimeReads \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Cecilia] Eudave's brief novel is intense, tightly layered, and unsettling as it slithers through familiar Latin American literary tropes, shedding its skin like a serpent to give them fresh life . . . Here, traditional logic is unreliable, death is an obsession, and the line between reality and the fantastic is porous.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Booklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A gorgeous, strange, kaleidoscopic book of wonders. This spare novel is a feat of magic, and its author is a true visionary.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Hannah Lillith Assadi, author of \u003ci\u003eParadiso 17\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A voice that knows how to narrate, from a place of tenderness, humor, and amazement, the wonderful absurdity of being alive.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Patricia Esteban Erlés, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLas Madres Negras\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Eudave weaves her \n\u003ci\u003ears poetica\u003c\/i\u003e from threads of wonder and the uncanny, where the marvelous appears in every action of the protagonists, alongside chance and the inexorable verdict of a labyrinthine past and future--filled with secrets that demand to be revealed and destinies that must be fulfilled.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Alberto González, \u003ci\u003eNexos \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Eudave layers everyday life with the anomalous until normality itself begins to fracture . . . A many-voiced narrative that dismantles the illusion of normal life and exposes the darkness beneath childhood.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Milenio\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A labyrinthine, spectral novel that embodies a contemporary poetics of the unusual. Eudave sketches a larger, astonishing reality--one that coils sinuously around the human world.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Panoptista\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A novel that inhabits many times at once--a ghostly warning that transforms the reader.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--El Mostrador\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCecilia Eudave \u003c\/b\u003elives in Guadalajara, Mexico, and teaches at the Universidad de Guadalajara. She is the author of the story collections \n\u003ci\u003eTécnicamente humanos\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eEn primera persona\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eRegistro de imposibles\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the novel \n\u003ci\u003eBestiaria vida\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Juan García Ponce Literary Award. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and translator. Her translations include Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's \n\u003ci\u003eWe Are Green and Trembling\u003c\/i\u003e (for which she won the National Book Award for translated literature), Andrés Neuman's Bariloche, Isabel Zapata's \n\u003ci\u003eIn Vitro\u003c\/i\u003e, Eliana Hernández-Pachón's \n\u003ci\u003eThe Brush\u003c\/i\u003e, and (with Sarah Booker) Cristina Rivera Garza's \n\u003ci\u003eDeath Takes Me\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\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.\n\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. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold in colliding voices--children and adults, ghosts and the haunted, the living and the almost-invisible-- \n\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. \n\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/20\/2026 (EAN 9781641295826, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781641295826, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/30\/0001 (EAN 9781641295826, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Soho Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496040759574,"sku":"9781641295826","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9781641295826.jpg?v=1783051537","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/the-summer-of-the-serpent","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}