Danvers-esque chatelaine named Florence, Virgil’s sister. Her cousin Catalina, married to an Englishman named Virgil Doyle whose family owned a large strip mine, now lives in a country manor known as High Place that may also be her prison among Catalina’s melodramatic-sounding claims is that it “stinks of decay, brims with every single evil and cruel sentiment.” Noemí is sent to find out if her cousin is ill or in danger.Īll the gothic tropes promised in the winking title are in place: The sacrificial virgin the damsel in distress the cruel, unyielding husband the spooky, distant locale even a Mrs. Her plans to begin graduate school are diverted by a call from an uncle. Yet she aspires to more though Noemí’s father dismisses her academic passions, she’s finished an undergraduate degree in anthropology. She manages a whirl of cigarette smoke and cocktails, as vibrant and brittle as a butterfly, without scandalizing herself or her social class.
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. Because Mexico in the 1970s is a noir, where life is cheap and the price of truth is high.Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the author of "Mexican Gothic." (Martin Dee) Swirling in parallel trajectories, Maite and Elvis attempt to discover the truth behind Leonora’s disappearance, encountering hitmen, government agents, and Russian spies. When Elvis is assigned to find Leonora, he begins a blood-soaked search for the woman-and his soul. Mexico in the 1970s is a politically fraught land, even for Elvis, a goon with a passion for rock ’n’ roll who knows more about kidney-smashing than intrigue. When her next-door neighbor, the beautiful art student Leonora, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman-and journeying deeper into Leonora’s secret life of student radicals and dissidents. Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city.
“An adrenalized, darkly romantic journey.”- The Washington Post.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, New York Public Library, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, BookPage, She Reads, Library Journal From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a simmering historical noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of the missing woman they’re both desperate to find.
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