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I chose this for El Salvador, as part of my quest to read a book from every country on Earth. This one is modernist, quasi-experimental writing, with short chunks of memoir-like snippets, each one focusing on a scene or moment from the character's childhood. These are sweet and trivial, dealing with domestic issues important to the child, often told in dialogue format. The author lost me when, without warning, she veers into graphic and brutal description of torture. Now, given El Salvador's tro
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