Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Autor de Mexican Gothic
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Photo: Martin Dee.
Series
Obras de Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Nightmare Magazine, October 2016 - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror special issue (2016) — Editor — 25 copias
Other Lives 6 copias
Maquech 3 copias
Flash Frame 3 copias
The Dark #042: November 2018 — Editor — 2 copias
Jaguar Woman [short story] 1 copia
Bloodlines [short story] 1 copia
Seeds 1 copia
The Dark #028: September 2017 — Editor — 1 copia
The Dark Issue 49 1 copia
In the House of the Hummingbirds 1 copia
The Dark Issue 41 1 copia
Strange Days 1 copia
A Shadow in Amber [short story] 1 copia
The Dark Issue 37 1 copia
The Dark Issue 40 1 copia
Book Club Kit: Mexican Gothic 1 copia
Lacrimosa [short story] 1 copia
The Dark Issue 43 1 copia
The Dark Issue 44 1 copia
The Dark Issue 45 1 copia
The Dark Issue 46 1 copia
The Dark Issue 47 1 copia
The Dark Issue 48 1 copia
Shedding Her Own Skin 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology (2013) — Contribuidor — 66 copias
Sunspot Jungle: The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2018) — Contribuidor — 35 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1981-04-25
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Mexico (birth)
Canada - Lugar de nacimiento
- Baja California, Mexico
- Lugares de residencia
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Educación
- University of British Columbia (MA) (science and technology studies)
- Ocupaciones
- communications officer
- Organizaciones
- University of British Columbia
- Agente
- Eddie Schneider
Miembros
Debates
SILVER NITRATE by Silvia Moreno-Garcia en The Weird Tradition (julio 2023)
Reseñas
Listas
Overdue Podcast (2)
Netgalley Reads (1)
Magic Realism (1)
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 72
- También por
- 46
- Miembros
- 12,573
- Popularidad
- #1,860
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 566
- ISBNs
- 166
- Idiomas
- 7
- Favorito
- 9
Just like a David Lynch production is not my usual film, this book is not my usual read. And just like watching Blue Velvet for the first time, I loved Mexican Gothic so much. This atmospheric thriller was as smooth as green velvet because of its dark whimsy—full of fables and fairytales—yet it was layered with such weight, the seriousness of gender, eugenics, race, and colonization. And the characters are just as layered as the thick atmosphere. While Noemi appears, at first, to be just a flighty socialite and Catalina appears, at first, to be just a hysterical woman, it doesn’t take long to see that these woman are not to be discredited; rather, they are forces to be reckoned with, and it’s through their will, insight, and intellect that ultimately frees themselves.
The first half of the novel could be called slow, but I think the pace is perfection—a perfect painting revealed: one of personified castles shrouded in bilious-green fog and smothering velvet green rooms. Mildew rotting the inside and moss suffocating the outside and everywhere—inside and outside, awake and asleep—is the melancholy, most notably in frail Francis. This moorish Gothic setting is heightened through the isolation and Lovecraftian characters who live at High Place: Virgil and Arthur and Florence and the weird family doctor. But it’s in the second half of the novel that these characters move from annoying to nefarious. It’s also in this second half where the pace picks up quite a bit and the pieces come together in quite a weird way—a Lynch-Lovecraft way.
What I love most about this book is that this is more than a monster’s tale; it’s about biology and religion and mythology and philosophy all amalgamated together. There’s so much here, such richness, and the ending still manages to feel hopeful despite the absurd arsenic trauma endured (by the characters and the readers): “The future, she thought, could not be predicted, and the shape of things could not be divined…. But they were young that morning, and they could cling to hope. Hope that the world could be remade, kinder and sweeter” (301).… (más)