{"product_id":"the-summer-of-the-serpent-9781641295826","title":"The Summer of the Serpent","description":"\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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Soho Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781641295826\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cecilia Eudave","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52491367841973,"sku":"9781641295826","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3d4bca99-a702-41c5-83a7-78fbd957a0c6.jpg?v=1777995961","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-summer-of-the-serpent-9781641295826","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}