
Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s debut novel Signal to Noise, the 1980s are almost over, and Meche is a teenager in Mexico City doing all those random stupid teenager things we all did back then: listening to music all night, riding around on the back of friends’ motorcycles, and casting magic spells in dilapidated factories.
Meche’s dad is trying to make a living as a musician, which in practice works out to spending too much time in bars and not enough time with his family. Meche, already an unpopular girl who gets bullied, escapes into the music her dad introduces her to, and into her friendships with Sebastian and Daniela.
Then, when a bully pushes her too far, she discovers that there’s magic in music …
If I still had to choose titles for my reviews, the one for Signal to Noise would have to be “Mix... Read More