'Paradais' by Fernanda Melchor explores the explosive fragility of racism, classism, and violence in Mexican society and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.
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Recommending this non-stop tale of madness and shot going sideways: darkly funny and dynamic like a Safdie brothers film - “Paradais” by Fernanda Melchor. Pulled me in like nothing else in a long time
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ideas with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience”.
✏️ Joan Didion.