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A Terrible Beauty: On Fernanda Melchor’s “Hurricane Season”
Amanda Dennis weathers “Hurricane Season,” the recently published novel by Fernanda Melchor and translated by Sophie Hughes....
Amanda Dennis is a writer and academic based in Paris. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature and the Journal of Beckett Studies (among other places), and she is working on a book about Beckett and French phenomenology. She holds a PhD from Berkeley and an MPhil in European Literature and Culture from Cambridge. She also has an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her debut novel, Her Here, will be published by Bellevue Literary Press in March 2021.