In Valeria Luiselli’s New Novel, the Past Never Stays Behind
“Beginning, Middle, End” crosses Sicily and Mexico, memory and imagination, to dissolve all borders between them.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on Mexico's path forward Find a bookshelf, close your eyes, and ask it a question. To get an answer, choose any book and land your eyes on the passage that feels right. In Valeria Luiselli’s new novel, Beginning, Middle, End, a recently divorced novelist plays this game with her daughter. With so much to say about this book, I played the game, too. I landed on this passage, a conversation between the two of them about the characters in the mother’s new novel: Is that mother and daughter you and me Or you and your...
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