{"product_id":"the-summer-of-the-serpent","title":"The Summer of the Serpent","description":"\u003cp\u003eA kaleidoscopic descent into the small violences and hidden horrors of a sweltering Guadalajara summer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuadalajara, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrange 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soho Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47928047632610,"sku":"9781641295826","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/3045\/3474\/files\/9781641295826.jpg?v=1782414282","url":"https:\/\/www.talkinganimalsbooks.com\/products\/the-summer-of-the-serpent","provider":"Talking Animals Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}