📖 peek insideMexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Set in 1950s Mexico, socialite Noemí Taboada travels to High Place, a remote mountain mansion, after receiving a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin. She finds a decaying estate inhabited by a chillingly cold English family and a house that seems to breathe with its own dark secrets. As Noemí uncovers the family's gruesome history, she must fight to escape a terrifying fate. This atmospheric, genre-bending novel reimagines gothic horror through a unique cultural and historical lens.
A popular book with millions of readers worldwide.
Notable Quotes
"A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her."
"Books, moonlight, melodrama."
"The world might indeed be a cursed circle; the snake swallowed its tail and there could be no end, only an eternal ruination and endless devouring."
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