To read a Yuri Herrera novel is to read a guide on how to set fire to the world and still come out alive. His newest novel, Season of the Swamp, moves like a strange fever—golden stopwatches keep hidden time for fugitives in attics, a piano weeps inside the theatre, and cigars rolled in the thousands in a small backroom later give birth to revolution. In New Orleans, beauty and devastation converge to form a mirror of the human heart—and so it is that our story follows how the Mexican revolutionary Benito Juarez came into his own during a two-year exile in the city.
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