SuitabookEmilio
Sophie Masson
- Reading
- Try reading the opening together, then pause to check how the sudden change in Emilio’s day feels. Decide together whether to continue straight away or take a break.
- Themes
- Family danger and uncertainty: Emilio learns that his mother has been kidnapped by unidentified criminals. The premise establishes a frightening family crisis, but not how the novel evaluates the people involved or resolves it.
- Mexico’s drug-war setting: The story is set amid Mexico’s drug war, which forms the wider context for Emilio’s family crisis. The setting is clear, but the novel’s broader explanation or evaluation of the conflict cannot be determined.
- Worth knowing
- Kidnapping and a drug-war setting are central to the premise. The story is described as a long nightmare, so its treatment of danger may be worth considering before reading together.