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1641295643 epub Moving between New York City, Mexico City, and Iowa City, a young member of the Mexican elite sees his life splinter in a centuries-spanning debut that blends the Latin American traditions of Roberto Bolao and Fernanda Melchor with the autofiction of US writers like Ben Lerner and Teju Cole. Sebastin lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowas MFA program. But Sebastins life is shaken by the Trump administrations restrictions on immigrants, his mothers terminal cancer, the cracks in his relationship, and his fathers forced resignation at the hands of Mexicos new president. As he struggles through the Trump and Lpez Obrador years, Sebastin must confront his fathers role in the Mexican drug war and navigate his whiteness in Mexican contexts even as he is often perceived as a person of color in the US. As he does so, the novel moves through centuries of Mexican literary history, from the 17th century letters of a peevishly polymathic Spanish colonizer to the contemporary packaging of Mexican writers for a US audience. Split between the US and Mexico, this stunning debut explores whiteness, power, immigration, and the history of Mexican literature, to wrestle with the contradictory relationship between two countries bound by geography and torn apart by politics. Read more