Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories—spiraling from real events—that bleed together reportage and the author’s rich and rigorous imagination.
These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them—and even empathize—despite our wish to disdain them as monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, Fernanda Mechor’s masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.
- ISBN10 0811228053
- ISBN13 9780811228053
- Publish Date 4 April 2023
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format Paperback
- Language English