Costalegre is an epistolary novel of diary entries from 15 year old Laura. She is in Mexico with her mother, who has created an artist‘s colony and is more concerned about her paintings arriving then the imminent eruption of WWII. This is based on Peggy Guggenheim and her relationship with her daughter and certainly deals with privilege and neglect. But overall I wasn‘t sure what the point was and it doesn‘t really have an ending, it just stops.