![]() ![]() ![]() As a result it’s hard to unravel who did what. Everyone blames everyone else for everything failed in their lives. So who killed the Witch? In La Matosa everyone is known as a drunk, a user and/or a sponger and an irresponsible piece of shit. The genius of Hurricane Season lies in the way its author encourages the reader to work with this babble to build not just the narrative of the murder, but also a picture of a poverty-stricken community further devastated by the coming of oil capital and the drugs industry. Paragraphing is managed instead by the full stops between extended sentences – breathless, bad-mouthed, resentful sentences, sentences that are fetid, rhythmic and readable, full of insult and gossip, anecdotes and digressions. There are no paragraphs, only chapter breaks. Eight chapters of the villagers’ testimony, each written out of a different subjectivity, become short stories in themselves. ![]()
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