The Summer of the Serpent

Praise for Summer of the Serpent “Satisfying and thought-provoking . . . Readers will be grateful for the introduction to this distinctive writer.” —Publishers Weekly “[Cecilia] Eudave’s brief novel is intense, tightly layered, and unsettling as it slithers through familiar Latin American literary tropes, shedding its skin like a serpent to give them fresh life . . . Here, traditional logic is unreliable, death is an obsession, and the line between reality and the fantastic is porous.” —Booklist “A gorgeous, strange, kaleidoscopic book of wonders. This spare novel is a feat of magic, and its author is a true visionary.” —Hannah Lillith Assadi, author of Paradiso 17 “A voice that knows how to narrate, from a place of tenderness, humor, and amazement, the wonderful absurdity of being alive.” —Patricia Esteban Erlés, author of Las Madres Negras “Eudave weaves her ars poetica from threads of wonder and the uncanny, where the marvelous appears in every action of the protagonists, alongside chance and the inexorable verdict of a labyrinthine past and future—filled with secrets that demand to be revealed and destinies that must be fulfilled.” —Alberto González, Nexos “Eudave layers everyday life with the anomalous until normality itself begins to fracture . . . A many-voiced narrative that dismantles the illusion of normal life and exposes the darkness beneath childhood.” —Milenio “A labyrinthine, spectral novel that embodies a contemporary poetics of the unusual. Eudave sketches a larger, astonishing reality—one that coils sinuously around the human world.” —Panoptista “A novel that inhabits many times at once—a ghostly warning that transforms the reader.” —El Mostrador