A review by snealon
Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis

4.0

Though it took me a minute to get oriented and thereby grounded in the story, I really loved the atmosphere Aridjis conjured, and I eventually sunk into the story. This is a beautifully written novel set in by turns a sleepy beach town in Oaxaca and Mexico City. Rife with striking, unusual connotative imagery, despite abundant pop culture allusions to the 80s in which the novel is set, there is a timelessness to the prose that I appreciated.