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![]() ![]() Therefore, the setting usually involves a family home with a default focus on the woman-or women-at the center. The aspects that stand out most to me are the reimagining of the gothic novel and Moreno-Garcia’s ambitious-and successful-attempt to comment on the role of women within both the genre and the time period in which the novel takes place.Īnne Williams, author of “Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothics,” characterizes gothic plots as domestic, as they center around dangers that befall the home. There are many things that this novel does well. Taking place in an isolated mansion in 1950s Mexico, Moreno-Garcia’s 2020 novel tells the story of Noemí’s quest to find out the meaning behind her cousin’s frantic letter and rescue her from High Place, the isolated countryside house that threatens to consume them both. Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “Mexican Gothic” was described as “a thoroughly enjoyable, thought-provoking novel” in a review by NPR, and I cannot find any room to disagree with this sentiment. ![]() ![]() This house is sick with rot, stinks of decay, brims with every single evil and cruel sentiment.” These are the words that Noemí Taboado receives in a letter from her newlywed cousin, Catalina Doyle. ![]()
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