{"product_id":"the-summer-of-the-serpent-hardcover","title":"The Summer of the Serpent - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCecilia Eudave\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.29 x 5.33 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45843767197740,"sku":"9781641295826","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/Ey-lSu6cOL9781641295826.webp?v=1785003616","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/the-summer-of-the-serpent-hardcover","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}