![]() ![]() ![]() But its overreach is a function of a maximalist instinct to create a world that’s weird, funny, erotic - and just enough like ours to say something about it. Is it a Latin American or global genre? A subset of science fiction or an island unto itself? No matter: In Popisho, her fourth novel, Ross is deeply, unabashedly committed to the form, transporting it to the Caribbean in the same way Salman Rushdie brought it to India and Toni Morrison brought it to Michigan. It’s a peculiar and refreshing statement, because there’s probably no genre tag that novelists and critics are more careful to dance around than “magical realism.” A stray flurry of butterflies does not a One Hundred Years of Solitude make, we’re often reminded a touch of telekenisis in a fantasy novel doesn’t equate to the kind of world-building the genre demands. “It took Toni Morrison and Gabriel Marquez at university for me to think, ‘Oh my God, the adult version of weird crap, that’s so cool!’” “It took time for me to give myself permission to write weird crap,” she said. ![]() After falling for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a kid, she explained, she was primed to be seduced by the mature version of it. In a 2016 interview, the novelist Leone Ross confessed her love for magical realism. ![]()
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