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Not Exactly Mexican Gothic, But Close Enough

The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

September 9, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr17bingo Border Now this was an interesting one.  Mexican Gothic is my jam, and I thought that this would be along that vein, but it turned out to be definitely its own thing – an intriguing cross between fictionalized family lore and magical realism.  And when I looked up the translation of Part Two – El Tragabalas, I discover that it is the book’s title in Spanish, but it is also the title of a fairly well known Mexican movie from the mid-60s, and the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, History, Horror, Western Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Drought and hard times, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Family history sorta, magical realism, Mexican movie star, Mexico and Texas in the 1890s and the 1960s, Mysterious grotty book, Not all characters are human, Texas rangers never give up even when it makes no sense, Violent and gory

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:42 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, History, Horror, Western · Tags: cbr17bingo, Drought and hard times, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Family history sorta, magical realism, Mexican movie star, Mexico and Texas in the 1890s and the 1960s, Mysterious grotty book, Not all characters are human, Texas rangers never give up even when it makes no sense, Violent and gory ·
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Bandit on the Run

The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

December 31, 2024 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Antonio Sonoro’s family has fallen on hard times. Though his namesake grandfather was an incredibly rich and powerful mine owner, the family fortune was destroyed by his greed and cruelty, to the extent that Antonio lives on dirt farm with his wife and two children, living near starvation due to prolonged drought. Antonio has turned to banditry as a more lucrative profession, though he curiously tends to give a lot of his ill-gotten goods away before they make it home. But now, in extremis, Antonio […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Elizabeth Gonzalez James

jeverett15's CBR16 Review No:82 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Elizabeth Gonzalez James ·
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