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The hurricane season book7/1/2023 ![]() In the sparsely populated village of La Matosa, the Witch wears numerous cultural hats: she is a social pariah, an urban legend, a haunting ghost, a source for drugs, an outlet for taboo sexual desires, and a target of deep-seated misogyny and homophobia. ![]() Her name is the Witch, a moniker used by friend and foe alike. Now, nearly two decades on comes Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season, which also deals with the femicides in Mexico but focuses its brutally exacting eye on a single case. ![]() Between 19, hundreds of women’s bodies were found mutilated and disfigured in Ciudad Juárez, which drew international condemnation and was the source of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666, which described in precise detail the physical state of dozens of corpses found in the area. The number of convictions, though, or even arrests, is so dismally low that, as activists have stated, murderers kill with “near total impunity.” Recently, the slayings of Ingrid Escamilla and 7-year old Fátima Aldrighett have renewed an outraged attention to this long-running horror. As of the middle of March, nearly 400 women have been killed in 2020 alone. In Mexico, from five to ten women are murdered every day. ![]()
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