{"product_id":"the-summer-of-the-serpent-9781641295826","title":"The Summer of the Serpent","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis surreal, horror-tinged, Guadalajara-set work of Latin American \"literature of the unusual\" is a kaleidoscopic descent into the small violences and hidden horrors of one sweltering summer, forming a coil of vignettes that slither under the skin for a strange, deeply human portrait of memory, myth, and family. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor fans of Samanta Schweblin, Mónica Ojeda, and Brenda Lozano. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGuadalajara, Mexico, 1977. In a quiet residential neighborhood, children witness things they can never forget: a serpent girl weeping in a carnival glass box, a neighbor who dangles his dog from a tree, and a ghost who returns night after night, desperate to tell its story. Meanwhile, the grown-ups drift through the season half oblivious, their spirits eroding as the relentless summer wears on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold in colliding voices--children and adults, ghosts and the haunted, the living and the almost-invisible--\u003ci\u003eThe Summer of the Serpent\u003c\/i\u003e is a prismatic portrait of the past, where memory is shot through with myth. Each narrator offers a fragment of the truth, until the stories twist together into a shape as elusive and mesmerizing as the boa constrictor that winds its way through the neighborhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStrange yet deeply human, this brilliantly fragmented novel captures the moment when childhood innocence begins to corrode--and how those memories can coil through a lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cecilia Eudave\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Soho Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.29h x 5.33w x 0.64d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781641295826\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCecilia Eudave \u003c\/b\u003elives in Guadalajara, Mexico, and teaches at the Universidad de Guadalajara. She is the author of the story collections \u003ci\u003eTécnicamente humanos\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEn primera persona\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRegistro de imposibles\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the novel \u003ci\u003eBestiaria vida\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Juan García Ponce Literary Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and translator. Her translations include Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's \u003ci\u003eWe Are Green and Trembling\u003c\/i\u003e (for which she won the National Book Award for translated literature), Andrés Neuman's Bariloche, Isabel Zapata's \u003ci\u003eIn Vitro\u003c\/i\u003e, Eliana Hernández-Pachón's \u003ci\u003eThe Brush\u003c\/i\u003e, and (with Sarah Booker) Cristina Rivera Garza's \u003ci\u003eDeath Takes Me\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Cecilia Eudave \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48614361759901,"sku":"9781641295826","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_1f6a7675-9961-4d6a-9b4d-5c160bc17b9f.jpg?v=1783465251","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-summer-of-the-serpent-9781641295826","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}