HURRICANE

Since 1979, hurricanes have changed names every year until completing a cycle of six different lists. In the seventh year, they start over. Every three hundred sixty-five days, a male name and a female name are alternated. Only in cases of extreme destruction, like Katrina in 2005, does the National Hurricane Center decide to retire that name and replace it with another of the same initial and gender.
Grace. Gaston. Gert. Gordon. Gabrielle. Gonzalo.
She wasn't on the list. The first name of the most destructive hurricane of my life. That Dickensian year, not so long ago, they would have taken away his name...
"The poetry of José Luis Justes Amador transitions from classicism (The Enamored Poet...) to the most radical experimentation (4' 33")." In Huracán, his first novel, he uses that dual facet in a single work. Justes turns autofiction into fiction, tragedy into comedy or vice versa, culture into bad jokes or instruments of conquest, literature into something banal, but, above all, demonstrates what we all know: that a love story is never just a love story. (Ma. Isabel Jiménez Ramírez).