In her English-language debut, Mexican author Fernanda Melchor tells the story of a young girl in sixth grade named Fig, who so desperately wants to understand her mentally ill father. Drawing from books about acclaimed artist Vincent Van Gogh, who very likely had Bipolar Disorder, Fig desperately searches for answers about her father to try to both understand and ultimately, save him from self-destruction.
When it was released, Hurricane Season received mostly positive reviews. Kirkus Reviews, for example, thought that the book was "Messy yet engrossingly feverish" and opined that "Melchor has deep reserves of talent and nerve." Publisher's Weekly liked the book even more than Kirkus Reviews, writing that the book is incredibly "Forceful, frenzied, violent, and uncompromising" and that "Melchor’s depiction of a town ogling its own destruction is a powder keg that ignites on the first page and sustains its intense, explosive heat until its final sentence. "
