A review by stewarthome
Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis

5.0

The prose is beautiful & the narrative details Mexican goth subculture in the 1980s. The first part is set in Mexico City but the two teen protagonists run away to a beach town, which creates a wonderful tension between the geographical setting and the post-punk style favoured by our anti-heroes. The descriptions of music clubs are groovy, and our two goths have fabulous cinematic tastes - on a date they go to see a revival of Muñecos infernales (or Curse of the Doll People from 1961 as it's known to English audiences). The seventeen year-old narrator visits the flat in which William Burroughs accidentally killed his wife and has Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror as her beach reading. Perfect!