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Tony
I was casting about for a short thriller and having heard good things about the writer's other books and being intrigued by the late-1970s Mexican setting, figured I'd give it a try. The story revolves around teenage Viridiana (named after the Bunuel film), who lives in a very sleepy seaside town in rural Baja. Unlike her peers, she can't wait to get out of her small town and escape the tedium of working in her mother' store and marrying some local boy. With English, French, and Dutch under her ...more
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