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Silencio

Silencio

Mendoza, Clyo
Macsweeney, Christina

Paperback

Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 15, 2026

ISBN10: 1644215616
ISBN13: 9781644215616
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
A lyrically haunting and powerful account of women surviving femicide and destruction in Mexico, using fantasy to relate atrocities that exist beyond language.

From the award-winning author of the highly praised novel, Fury, one of Publisher's Weekly's Best Books of 2024 and an Indie Next Pick.

Silencio tells the story of Águeda, a young woman mourning the death of her mother. When the townspeople deny her a grave in the local cemetery, the mother's body vanishes. Águeda knows her father is hiding it, and when she confronts him, he punishes her defiance with confinement.

Serving her sentence in a house, Águeda lives within those walls as if in a second maternal womb--one that will transform her. In chapters alternating between the real and the imaginary, she mourns the destroyed futures of those who were silenced as she listens to her neighbors' stories of loss--a child worker; a boy from the Tacuate community; and Mexican refugees in Canada. Through the walls, she senses the world: birds in dialogue, the beauty of the arid landscape, experiences of love and devastation. She comes to realize that in this mountain region that resembles the author's hometown of Oaxaca, where organized crime holds sway, many--like her--mourn their dead and search for the disappeared.

In her second book to be translated into English, Clyo Mendoza transcends the limits of language and realism to represent with lyric brutality the unspeakable violence in towns where narcotrafficking rules.

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