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Gritty and brutal. The words get the job done but with no beauty.

This novel brought to mind what ICE is currently doing in this country. The story is heartbreaking with a mother and son trying desperately to escape the horrors of Cartel violence and certain death. Many people have been lost, killed and broken while making this or similar journeys. 4.75/5⭐️

157/100 🎧📖🔖
Heart-pounding story of survival of a mother and son fleeing Mexico to US from the cartel that slaughtered their entire family.
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Border patrol pulled over a woman very near my work this morning. I'm sure it was absolutely necessary to have 2 border patrol cars, 2 county cops, and a state cop all there for a 5 foot tall woman and her toddler child. What a production. I'm so angry. 🤬🤬🤬

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We do not care that we volunteered to help a friend pack up to move. We do not care about two broken nails, a sore back and pain in too many other places to mention. We also do not care that we broke two tiny serving dishes as there were at least 10 more (maybe 20 as we lost track after hours of bubble wrapping).

#WDNCW @dabbe

An old college book of my mother-in-law‘s that I‘ve always wanted to read. Not entirely a cultural point-by-point analysis of Mexican character and thought, but covers a good swath of Central American history and the psychological/philosophical changes a people must make to accommodate the coming of the conquistadors, Spanish Catholicism, French revolutionary thought and American imperialism. Paz, as poet, places ritual, love and poetry as balm.

(2015) Moreno-Garcia's debut novel is a YAish book about three high school kids in 1988 Mexico City who use music to work magic, in a dual timeline with a story about their adult selves reconnecting twenty years later. The 1988 story is appealing and its high school character dynamics ring true for me. It's less clear to me what the author intended with the later timeline, which for my taste could have been omitted. Soft pick.

I read this one a good 15 years ago back when I used to own a big house with a bath and absolutely loved it. Saw it at a book swap and just had to take a picture and let you all know how great it is if you are as obsessed with Mexico as I am. I was on my way home from learning a new pole routine on Friday night. It was a bit yuck weather wise so didn‘t do my usual massive walk and caught the train to avoid the rain.

This book was great! The writing style was unique and flowed beautifully and kept me captivated. I could not put this down.

This was my first time reading Garza, and even though these stories were challenging, they also really run the gamut and I love it when authors try to push ideas to weird limits, even if I couldn't follow everything. Two favs were City of Men and Strange is the Bird that Can Cross the River Pripyat. Both are fantastic worlds but not what you expect. Definite Borges vibes.