Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Indie “one of his generation’s most

“one of his generation’s most exhilarating writers

strange night on the train

And can she win Eddie’s heart before her past––or his––catches up to her

Arvy Keening is just trying to get through the week

Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Indie “one of his generation’s mostMexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next door neighbor, the beautiful art student Leonora, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing womanand journeying deeper into Leonoras secret life of student radicals and dissidents. Mexico in the 1970s