Booksology This week we’re highlighting a post that made management editor Vanessa Dias feel a sense of the way. Now, even after five years since it was released, Vanessa is still salty American soil. Read the excerpt and become an All Access member to unlock the full post.
Illustration: January 2020, USA. The blue ink forms a beautiful hummingbird motif illuminated by a creamy background, a bird-little related to the Aztec mythological sun god Huichanropochtri. The black barbed wire quickly cuts the pattern into a grid that resembles the arrangement of the Talabella tiles, delicate and imposing. The package is eye-catching and ostensibly touched by Mexicans, evoking boundaries and immigrant experiences.
The book tells the story of the owner of a bookstore in Acapulco, Mexico. He is forced to run away from home when the drug cartel kills everyone in his family except for his young son in Kinseáñera. She and the boy become immigrants, head out on a dangerous north journey to the US border, avoiding the cartels and making friends with fellow immigrants along the way. This book is not just about the “it” book of the season, Immigration story. It was treated by Oprah and has been praised by everyone from Salma Hayek to the great Sandra Cisneros, known as “The Great Novel of Las Americas.”
It’s been over five years, but this book is still a source of trouble for my existence.
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