The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-GarciaMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I'll just say it: Evelyn Hugo walked so Vera Larios could run. SMG shies away from her typical supernatural style in this one, but it's no less sharp in its commentary or grand in its story for it. Focusing heavily on race in 1950s Hollywood just like Taylor Jenkins Reid's signature book does (and arguably more authentically since it comes from an author of Mexican descent), this book is short but complex, and adds in rich details for the life of Salome herself as she inspired her eventual film adaptation - a life which the Bible forgot, to hear SMG tell it in the author's note at the end. I'm not happy that this book hasn't been nearly as runaway a bestseller as The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, but if there's justice in the world of literature and film, this one will get the movie treatment before Evelyn Hugo gets out of development hell. Too many people are sleeping on Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and that's a damn travesty.
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