This is not Miami

Fernanda Melchor
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Translated by Sophie Hughes

Fernanda Melchor blends reportage with her distinctive narrative style in this collection of stories

Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers twelve devastating stories that spiral from real events. These cronicas — a genre unique to Latin American writing, blending reportage and fiction — probe the motivations of murderers and misfits, compelling us to understand or even empathise with them. Melchor is like a ventriloquist, using a range of distinctive voices to evoke the smells, sounds and words of this fascinating world that includes mistreated women, damaged families, refugees, prisoners and even a beauty queen.

As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, Fernanda Melchor's masterful stories show how the violent and shocking events that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.

ISBN: 9781922790200 | Published: 4 April 2023 | Trade paperback | 192 pages
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