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A review by trillium9
A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera
In some ways, this is a book about a specific event in a specific place, comprised mostly of less-than-reliable reports about the event. But the book does a beautiful job of highlighting the holes left in the story, and the story-not-told is always on display. So many places have untold(purposefully unacknowledged) stories of oppression, and I think the themes brought out in this book are very widely applicable.
It was interesting to read this at the same time as I read "In the Dream House" by Carmen Maria Machado, which is also comprised of commonly told stories and motifs about queerness and domestic violence, and which highlights the story of queer domestic violence that is not told. The themes and style of both books are remarkably similar in some ways.
It was interesting to read this at the same time as I read "In the Dream House" by Carmen Maria Machado, which is also comprised of commonly told stories and motifs about queerness and domestic violence, and which highlights the story of queer domestic violence that is not told. The themes and style of both books are remarkably similar in some ways.