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Moreno-Garcia has put together a pretty classic gothic novel, but I found it had a "missed it by this much" quality that left me dragging my feet when it came to reading it. Noemí Taboada, glittering debutante from Mexico City, is sent high up into Mexico's mountains to check on her cousin Catalina.
The reviews would have you believe that Mexican Gothic has Shirley Jackson/ Henry James prose, is steeped in Mexican folklore, and has a twisty and unbelievably imaginative plot. I felt like a crazy person reading this book—it is precisely none of those things!
3 Οκτ 2024 · Mexican Gothic is a story that has garnered immense popularity in the bookish community. It follows Noemí as she goes to High Place in order to save her sister from her husband. Noemí is headstrong and wants what she wants and does what she feels like it.
26 Ιουν 2020 · Noemí Taboada, the heroine of Silvia Moreno-Garcia ’s novel, “Mexican Gothic,” lives for pleasure, and in 1950s Mexico City, she can find plenty of it. She manages a whirl of cigarette smoke...
16 Ιουλ 2020 · There is something monstrously fecund, something growing and decaying and rotting, in High Place, the center of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel Mexican Gothic. High Place is an English-style...
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23 Αυγ 2020 · It is a great pleasure to announce that Mexican Gothic, the new novel from Silvia Moreno-Garcia, has taken the opportunities lent by classic horror motifs and woven a fast-paced, beautiful novel filled with suspense and more than a few new twists.
