A review by octavia_cade
It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This was outstanding. I read it as part of the Read Around the World challenge, and I freely admit that I just grabbed the first Venezuela book I could find in the public library, so I went into it with no expectations whatsoever. It's sort of general fiction, sort of thriller, of a woman trying to survive political unrest in Caracas, and the compromises and violence she has to tolerate and/or embrace in order to survive. I should have been doing my own writing this morning. I thought "I'll just read fifty pages" but hours later, I'd gobbled down the entire thing. It's grim and complex and horrifying, and I'm really interested in reading Borgo's nonfiction now, as I understand that, up until this point, she was primarily a nonfiction writer.

I'm going to need to get a copy of this for myself. It really is so well done.