Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Quit: PARADAIS by Fernanda Melchor

 Quit: PARADAIS by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes. 201 for original Spanish. 2022 for English. 9780811231329.

Guy working as maintenance at a gated and exclusive community in a smaller Mexican city sorta makes friends with a creepy local teen. The friendship is based on the skeezy local guy stealing money from his grandparents and buying booze for him and the maintenance guy.

A short novel at 112 pages. But, I think there are no sentences shorter than half a page. Loooooong sentences throughout the work and the style got way too annoying. 

Comments:

  • Are the long sentences meant to show a thought process by a character?
  • Long sentences as a constant mental bebop of the character?
  • Long sentences as a "check this out literay pals!" by the writer?
  • Doesn't matter because I just wanted to read the story and not analyze the style or text.

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