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The Summer of the Serpent
  • Published: 4 August 2026
  • ISBN: 9781641295826
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $65.00

The Summer of the Serpent

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4 Aug 2026
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A horror-infused, polyphonic work about the violence and cruelty seething in a late-70s Guadalajara neighborhood

This surreal, horror-tinged, Guadalajara-set work of Latin American “literature of the unusual” is a kaleidoscopic descent into the small violences and hidden horrors of one sweltering summer, forming a coil of vignettes that slither under the skin for a strange, deeply human portrait of memory, myth, and family.

For fans of Samanta Schweblin, Mónica Ojeda, and Brenda Lozano.

Guadalajara, Mexico, 1977. In a quiet residential neighborhood, children witness things they can never forget: a serpent girl weeping in a carnival glass box, a neighbor who dangles his dog from a tree, and a ghost who returns night after night, desperate to tell its story. Meanwhile, the grown-ups drift through the season half oblivious, their spirits eroding as the relentless summer wears on.

Told in colliding voices—children and adults, ghosts and the haunted, the living and the almost-invisible—The Summer of the Serpent is a prismatic portrait of the past, where memory is shot through with myth. Each narrator offers a fragment of the truth, until the stories twist together into a shape as elusive and mesmerizing as the boa constrictor that winds its way through the neighborhood.

Strange yet deeply human, this brilliantly fragmented novel captures the moment when childhood innocence begins to corrode—and how those memories can coil through a lifetime.
  • Published: 4 August 2026
  • ISBN: 9781641295826
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $65.00
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Praise for The Summer of the Serpent

Praise for Summer of the Serpent

“A gorgeous, strange, kaleidoscopic book of wonders. This spare novel is a feat of magic, and its author is a true visionary.”—Hannah Lillith Assadi, author of Paradiso 17

“Eudave weaves her ars poetica from threads of wonder and the uncanny, where the marvelous appears in every action of the protagonists, alongside chance and the inexorable verdict of a labyrinthine past and future.”—Nexos

“A voice that knows how to narrate, from a place of tenderness, humor, and amazement, the wonderful absurdity of being alive.”—Patricia Esteban Erlés, author of Las madres negras

Praise for Summer of the Serpent

“A gorgeous, strange, kaleidoscopic book of wonders. This spare novel is a feat of magic, and its author is a true visionary.”—Hannah Lillith Assadi, author of Paradiso 17

“Eudave weaves her ars poetica from threads of wonder and the uncanny, where the marvelous appears in every action of the protagonists, alongside chance and the inexorable verdict of a labyrinthine past and future.”—Nexos

“A voice that knows how to narrate, from a place of tenderness, humor, and amazement, the wonderful absurdity of being alive.”—Patricia Esteban Erlés, author of Las madres negras