Novella in episodes. Coming of age, impossible love, memories of Mexico, resisting nostalgia, class conflict, cultural change, influx of American products, city in transformation. P33 “I looked down Avenida Álvaro Obregón and said to myself: I‘m going to hold onto my memory of this moment because everything that now exists will never be the same again.†P70 “So ancient, so remote, such an impossible story.†1963, trans. Katherine Silver 2021