Time of the Flies

Paperback, 361 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2024 by Charco Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-913867-86-7

(1 review)

Fifteen years after killing her husband’s lover, Inés is fresh out of prison and trying to put together a new life. Her old friend Manca is out now too, and they’ve started a business – FFF, or Females, Fumigation, and Flies – dedicated to pest control and private investigation, by women, for women. But Señora Bonar, one of their clients, wants Inés to do more than kill bugs – she wants her expertise, and her criminal past, to help her kill her husband’s lover, too. Crimes against women versus crimes by women; culpability, fallibility, and our responsibilities to each other—this is Piñeiro at her wry, earthy best, alive to all the ways we shape ourselves to be understandable, to be understood, by family and love and other hostile forces.

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Taylor Drew reviewed Time of the Flies by Frances Riddle

Feminism and flies

5 stars

While I haven't had the chance to read A Little Luck yet, I remember being really impressed with the author's first work in English, Elena Knows. I can't remember a lot about it now, but I remember being really interested at the time and it was enough for me to buy both A Little Luck and this book shortly after they came out. And Time of the Flies did not disappoint at all.

I really love how the author shifts character perspective throughout the novel and also the quotes from actual nonfiction books that are directly related to the story.

It's a story about family, womanhood, marginalization, and being beaten down by a system that treats you as less. It is a wonder of a novel that has me thinking a lot about my own role in society and how I feel about gender, and I know I'm going to …

While I haven't had the chance to read A Little Luck yet, I remember being really impressed with the author's first work in English, Elena Knows. I can't remember a lot about it now, but I remember being really interested at the time and it was enough for me to buy both A Little Luck and this book shortly after they came out. And Time of the Flies did not disappoint at all.

I really love how the author shifts character perspective throughout the novel and also the quotes from actual nonfiction books that are directly related to the story.

It's a story about family, womanhood, marginalization, and being beaten down by a system that treats you as less. It is a wonder of a novel that has me thinking a lot about my own role in society and how I feel about gender, and I know I'm going to be thinking about it for a long time.