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Mexican Gothic - Paperback
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Mexican Gothic
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Featured in our reading guides: Books Like Mexican Gothic: 8 Novels to Read After High Place and Cosmic Horror Books: Where to Start and What to Read Next
Noemí Taboada travels to a remote house in the Mexican countryside after a troubling letter from her newly married cousin. At High Place, family secrets and the house itself make leaving harder than arriving.
Spinebound shelf note: A lush, unsettling gothic novel for readers who like their haunted houses to have roots in a family's history.
Edition details
- Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Paperback
- ISBN: 9780525620808
- Publisher: Del Rey
- 352 pages; published June 15, 2021
Explore the Gothic reading guide for more atmospheric fiction, or consider What Moves the Dead for a shorter, stranger haunted-house story.
Details
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780525620808
Praise
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An inspired mash-up of Jane Eyre, Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, Dracula, Rebecca and that 1958 classic sci-fi movie, The Blob... Inventive and smart, [Mexican Gothic is] injecting the Gothic formula with some fresh blood.
NPR's Fresh Air
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Stylish and edgy... While the book draws inspiration from Gothic classics like Rebecca and Jane Eyre, there is a spunky female protagonist and an ancient house filled with disturbing secrets, its archly intelligent tone and insightful writing make Mexican Gothic an original escape to an eerie world.
New York Times
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[An] irresistibly dark feminist reimagining of the Gothic fantasy novel... It's all wonderfully creepy, blending chilling scenes of horror with classic Gothic tropes for a seductive and subversive tale. A book to devour in a few, very thrilling, sittings.
Vanity Fair
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The author's postcolonial spin on the gothic tradition evokes the usual suspects: Daphne du Maurier, Emily Brontë, Mary Shelley, even Anne Radcliffe.
Los Angeles Times
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