“My grandmother refuses to visit our country because of what it did to her country, and I won’t go to her country because I’m afraid to fly. It has crossed my mind to call her, but frankly, it’s too late to begin that sort of relationship. And it’d be insincere. Besides, she died several years ago.”
Hecho en El Salvador
by Alejandro Varela
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Book 5: “The Town of Babylon” by #AlejandroVarela.
A gay Latino returns home to the suburbs for a high school reunion and encounters key people from his past. Narrator alternates between 1st person to describe scenes and 3rd person to analyze social inequities. After a while, it feels a little like the kind of defensive writing people do on social media: it’s not enough to tell a story; you have to demonstrate your grasp of the conditions that led to it.
Speed Paste Robot
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