Signal to Noise

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Mexico City, 1988: Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, has two equally unhip friends - Sebastian and Daniela - and a whole lot of vinyl records to keep her company. When she discovers how to cast spells using music, the future looks brighter for the trio. The three friends will piece together their broken families, change their status as non-entities, and maybe even find love...

Mexico City, 2009: Two decades after abandoning the metropolis, Meche returns for her estranged father's funeral. It's hard enough to cope with her family, but then she runs into Sebastian, reviving memories from her childhood she thought she buried a long time ago. What really happened back then? What precipitated the bitter falling out with her father? Is there any magic left?

Book Details

Publisher: Solaris
Publish Date: Feb 10th, 2015
Pages: 208
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.60in - 4.90in - 0.80in - 0.40lb
EAN: 9781781082997
Categories: • Fantasy - Contemporary• Literary• Hispanic & Latino

About the Author

Moreno-Garcia, Silvia: - Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels, including Gods of Jade and Shadow (Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Ignyte Award), Mexican Gothic (Locus Award, Pacific Northwest Book Award, Goodreads Award), and others.

She has edited several anthologies, including She Walks in Shadows (World Fantasy Award winner, published in the USA as Cthulhu's Daughters). Silvia is the publisher of Innsmouth Free Press. She co-edited the horror magazine The Dark with Sean Wallace from 2017 to 2020. She's a columnist for The Washington Post.

She has an MA in Science and Technology Studies from the University of British Columbia. Her thesis can be read online and is titled "Magna Mater: Women and Eugenic Thought in the Work of H.P. Lovecraft." She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Praise for this book

"This accurate depiction of outcast teenage life cycles effortlesslybetween eras. Meche, Sebastian, and Daniela are deeply believable characters, and numerous '80s musical references make this unusual story a welcome blastfrom the past."-- "- Publisher's Weekly"

"In a poignant, graceful coda, Moreno-Garcia brings the book fullcircle, slyly subverting the expectations of a linear narrative and punctuatingMeche's story with a hushed, lovely flourish. In many ways, Signal to Noise is acoming-of-age tale, but it's also the tale of what comes after -- and whathappens when forces beyond our control, magical or otherwise, are better leftthat way."-- "- NPR"

"Moreno-Garcia has a solid and convincing prose style, robust and subtlein all the right places... a successful debut, and a very interesting book."-- "- Tor.com"

"Suffused with the music - English-language and Spanish, pop and punk -that Meche and friends use to make their magic and soundtrack to their lives, this is both a spiky and charmingly sweet romance of making amends and startingagain. 4 stars."-- "- SFX Magazine"

"You've never read a book about Magic and Loss like Signal to Noise."-- "- i09"

"Fans of Eleanor and Park, meet Meche and Sebastian."-- "- School's Library Journal"

"Haunting and beautifully nuanced, Signal to Noise is a magical first novel." -- "The Guardian"

"The book is this rich, elaborate symphony of awesome that defies simple definitions."-- "Kirkus"

"It is a novel which doesn't set out to shake the world but rather to present something that is personal and thoughtful; emotional but sometimes guarded. In this, it is much like the box of mixtapes I'll always keep." -- "Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association."

"Signal to Noise is an utterly gorgeous book, and will make you want to get out your old turntable and records and give them a spin or two (or three.) Don't miss out on this one." -- "My Bookish Ways"

"The book is also a love letter to the various formats people have listened to music with over the past thirty years." -- "Fantasy Faction"