RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksReading Fernanda Melchor\'s novel...is a bit like entering the natural disaster of its title, with sweeping paragraphs, lashing sentences, and scenes of breathtaking ferocity. Sophie Hughes’s formidable translation of the difficult text (originally published in Spanish in 2016) immerses the reader in a world of linguistic and material violence on Mexico’s Gulf Coast ... innovative ... Melchor’s novel makes clear how the dehumanization of the worker is linked to the profit-seeking imperatives of corporations ... Hurricane Season’s portrayal of abject poverty echoes the naturalist novel’s biting critique of environmental and human exploitation ... Melchor’s neonaturalism is more akin to what Mark Fisher has called \'capitalist realism,\' which posits no \'political alternatives to capitalism\' ... Melchor declines to embrace futuristic fantasies of a world beyond capitalism. Instead, her novel depicts the impotence of such hopes, even as it shines a powerful light on the damaged lives left in capitalism’s wake.