Tiff M answers “I get the notion, after reading a lot of...”

A Goodreads user asked this question about Mexican Gothic:

I get the notion, after reading a lot of reviews, that this book tries waaaaaay too hard to shoehorn every single issue-of-the-day into it (feminism, racism, sexism, colonialism...). True or not so much?

Tiff M Those "issues of- the- day" have always been actual issues for the people negatively impacted, but in this only racism is really explored with depth. …moreThose "issues of- the- day" have always been actual issues for the people negatively impacted, but in this only racism is really explored with depth. Eugenics plays a significant role and the bodies of Mexican workers were buried in unmarked graves. I guess the main character wanting to be more than a wife and mother would be considered feminism by some conservative readers. There is also a mention that as women they have no power so she cannot just take her cousin away for psychological treatment without the husband's consent or the help of her father, but that's the reality of the time.(less)

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