Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Publisher: Jo Fletcher
Paperback
Staff Picks: Pema says…
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a spooky pageturner about the Doyles, a vampiric colonising dynasty, and their attempts to bring their disturbing ways into the latter half of the 20th century. Elegant and accomplished Noemí Taboada receives a note from her desperate cousin Catalina, who has married into the Doyle family. Struck by the real emotion in Catalina’s letter, Noemi leaves her life of controlled artifice and decadence to interrogate the trouble her cousin has found herself in. She finds herself somewhere she didn’t expect - a horror story rooted in settler-colonialist greed.