Anthony Trollope remarked that a satirist did best to write little, “or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.” Well …
Cheryl Strayed’s debut novel, while addressing autobiographical themes, performs the old-fashioned magic of fiction – it builds a town, fills it with people, reveals their hearts and minds, lets loose upon them the forces of death and lust – and sees what happens
Because Jessica Abel’s La Perdida takes place in Mexico City and involves a sometimes frictional intermingling of Mexicans and Americans, it’s attracted comparison to Los Bros Hernandez’s classic Love and Rockets
