{"product_id":"the-summer-of-the-serpent","title":"The Summer of the Serpent","description":"\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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of Samanta Schweblin, Mónica Ojeda, and Brenda Lozano.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A gorgeous, strange, kaleidoscopic book of wonders. This spare novel is a feat of magic, and its author is a true visionary.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-- Hannah Lillith Assadi, author of \u003ci\u003eParadiso 17\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCecilia Eudave \u003c\/b\u003elives in Guadalajara, Mexico, and teaches at the Universidad de Guadalajara. She is the author of the story collections \u003ci\u003eTécnicamente humanos\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEn primera persona\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRegistro de imposibles\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the novel \u003ci\u003eBestiaria vida\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Juan García Ponce Literary Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and translator. Her translations include Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's \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 \u003ci\u003eIn Vitro\u003c\/i\u003e, Eliana Hernández-Pachón's \u003ci\u003eThe Brush\u003c\/i\u003e, and (with Sarah Booker) Cristina Rivera Garza's \u003ci\u003eDeath Takes Me\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cecilia Eudave; Robin Myers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51946574217501,"sku":"9781641295826","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781641295826.jpg?v=1783008210","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/the-summer-of-the-serpent","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}