HURRICANE SEASON Book Club

Our February Book Club will meet at McNally Jackson to discuss Fernanda Melchor’s Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Hurricane Season: “a bilious, profane, blood-spattered tempest of rage” (The Wall Street Journal), that casts “a powerful spell” (NPR).

In March, we will read Jose Donoso’s terrifying masterpiece The Obscene Bird of the Night, newly revised and updated by Megan McDowell in an unabridged, centennial edition.

When: Every first Tuesday of the month, 7pm
Where: McNally Jackson SoHo (downstairs)
134 Prince Street, NYC
RSVP here

cover of the book Hurricane Season cover of the book The Obscene Bird of Night

ND McNally Book Club
February 3rd, 2026

“It’s no wonder that Melchor was dubbed a sort of south-of-the-border Faulkner for her baroque and often brutally harrowing tale of poverty, paranoia and murder in a fictional Mexican village.”
—New York Times (“The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century”)


“A Gulf Coast noir from four characters’ perspectives, each circling a murder more closely than the last. Melchor has an exceptional gift for ventriloquism, as does her translator, Sophie Hughes, who skillfully meets the challenge posed by a novel so rich in idiosyncratic voices.”
— Julian Lucas, New York Times

ND McNally Book Club
March 3rd, 2026

“After spending weeks with this teeming magnificent novel—one of the great reading experiences of my life–I can only repeat what one of its characters says of the plausibly infinite Casa, that it is ‘a photographic negative…of the whole world’”
—Dustin Illingworth, Southwest Review

“José Donoso is my favorite author of the Latin American Boom (better than Gabriel Garcia Márquez).”
—Fernanda Melchor

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