House of Bone and Rain

"Gabino Iglesias—who scooped the 2022 prize for best novel with his reluctant hitman tale The Devil Takes You Home — returns with this supernatural revenge fantasy set in Puerto Rico during 2017’s devastating Hurricane Maria. “The book captures, in stunningly visceral detail, not only the havoc of a hurricane that left thousands dead, but also the everyday life of a vulnerable community before and after Maria’s arrival, troubled by a crumbling infrastructure and by decades of governmental neglect,” explained Christopher Bollen in a New York Times review . This social context provides the backdrop to the extreme violence meted out by the book’s protagonists, amid haunting magical realism. “If there is a novel that reads more like living through a hurricane, I’m not sure I have the survival skills to read it.”"