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The enduring horrors of everyday life
In her stonkingly good collection, This Is Not Miami, Fernanda Melchor writes about infamous historical events in her childhood home of Veracruz in Mexico, using a docu-dramatical approach to chronicling the realities of living in a city where violence is commonplace as breath. Its 12 narratives acknowledge the fictions that shape family gossip or hearsay on the street. Tragic happenings become the stuff of urban legend – shaped by the subjectivity of each new storyteller.
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