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The author talks about the books that influenced her to write about horror from a woman's point of view, and why working in a bookstore was so influential to her reading life.
Today’s boom in Latin American literature is spearheaded by women, from Fernanda Melchor, Mariana Enriquez to Samanta Schweblin, who engage with femicide, trauma and violence through horror and speculative fiction