Mex

Seventeen-year-old Mex is an American living near the Mexican border, but in the rough bars of his hometown, bigots reduce him to a slur. When a red-haired bully insults him and makes vile remarks about his sister, Mex refuses to back down, even as the men around him laugh and hold him back. His anger is fueled by more than wounded pride: he knows his family is not like other families.

Mex’s sister is a genuine witch, his father is a ten-foot giant, and his mother possesses the strange beauty and power of a siren. In a world where ancestral memories and shadowy beings remain close beneath the surface, Mex’s boasts are not fantasies but warnings. Told in a striking first-person voice, this compact supernatural tale blends borderland prejudice, family mythology, and mounting menace as one furious young man discovers what it means to be feared—and what he truly is.