One of my hot takes on literature is a lot of the old school, Victorian-era, Gothic novels kind of stink. In classic tale Jane Eyre, the love interest’s deep dark secret—and the deep dark secret of his house—is that his first wife is locked up in the attic? And the reveal is that it’s so hard for him?? Silvia Moreno-Garcia literally would never in her contemporary take on this subgenre of classic, Mexican Gothic.

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