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A review by literarymarvel
Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis
4.0
Catapult was kind enough to send me a galley of SEA MONSTERS, a novel about a teenage girl, Luisa, as she becomes obsessed with a strange boy named Tomas and eventually runs away with him to the seaside town of Zipolite in Oaxaca. There, the two drift apart, and Luisa becomes enraptured by the strangers who dot the Beach of the Dead.
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But the main craft of the novel is in all of the strange and mesmeric transgressions of Luisa and the mysterious ways in which strangers shape our lives. Aridjis’ writing is poetic and strange, but it moves well and she has a talent for understanding how the minute things in a person’s life affect who they are.
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But the main craft of the novel is in all of the strange and mesmeric transgressions of Luisa and the mysterious ways in which strangers shape our lives. Aridjis’ writing is poetic and strange, but it moves well and she has a talent for understanding how the minute things in a person’s life affect who they are.