So this week’s book is magical realism for the modern age, and it’s delightful. Meche returns to Mexico City in 2009 after the death of her father, to attend his funeral and to sort his personal effects. She’s not seen him or spoken to him in twenty years, and hasn’t been back to Mexico City in eighteen. She left in 1988, and the circumstances surrounding that and her reluctance to return are explored in a series of flashback chapters as she deals with her family in 2009 and runs into the two...
Published on October 02, 2015 12:43