Mexican Gothic ★★★★★

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★★★★★

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is set in Mexico during the 1950s and tells the story of a woman who receives a letter from her cousin, who was recently married and moved to the Mexican countryside, begging for help and alluding mysteriously to ghosts and snakes and poison and rot. Noemí, the main character, travels to save her cousin and discovers that things are not what they seem at High Place. Something sinister seems to lurk just below the surface, but what exactly that is does not come out till the end.

I read this on my Kindle on loan from the library. This book was so popular last year and had a wicked long hold at the library!

Noemí is extremely strong willed and also very fashionable. High Place, the house in the mountains, is a character all of it’s own. The Doyles, who Noemí’s cousin, Catalina, has married into, are strict, close-knit, and have some serious family secrets hiding in the closet.

The dream sequences in this book were phenomenal, descriptive visual masterpieces, teetering on real vs. imagined.

If you liked Mexican Gothic, I also recommend White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi, The Good House by Tananarive Due, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, and We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin.

happy reading.

ms.bjork