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This Is Not Miami

by Fernanda Melchor

Reportage, imagination, and life around Veracruz

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Longlisted for the 2024 National Translation Award in Prose

    Longlisted for the 2024 National Translation Award in Prose.

AlbakiReads Editorial

Reportage, imagination, and life around Veracruz

Set in and around Veracruz, Fernanda Melchor’s collection builds narrative nonfiction pieces from real events, bringing reportage into conversation with imaginative reconstruction. The stories examine people cast as murderers or misfits through their motives, desires, and circumstances, complicating the impulse to reduce them to labels. Violence and shocking incidents are presented in relation to wider social instability, giving the collection a focus that extends beyond the events themselves. The book occupies a space between documentary accounts and literary storytelling, with Veracruz as its geographic anchor.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in narrative nonfiction shaped by real events
  • Readers drawn to writing about Veracruz and Mexican society
  • Readers interested in how social conditions intersect with violence and criminality

Themes

Narrative nonfiction and imaginationViolence and social instabilityMotives, circumstances, and judgmentVeracruz

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Book overview

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSE

Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories--spiraling from real events--that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them--and even empathize--despite our wish to simply label them monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, Fernanda Melchor's masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.

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