Antonio Ruiz-Camacho recommends
Home Reading Service (2021)
Fabio Morábito
"In the tradition of the wittiest and wisest Mexican storytellers such as Jorge Ibarguengoitia, Juan Villoro, and Juan Pablo Villalobos, Fabio Morabito has written a fable about contemporary Mexico that is both hilariously entertaining and soberingly profound. Home Reading Service reads both as a beguiling page-turner and a tender and compassionate elegy about the social unraveling of a country devastated by corruption, organized crime, and collective solitude. Weeks after finishing this slim but muscular novel, I'm still haunted by it."