{"product_id":"9798330400386","title":"A Mexican Maze Without Borders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCritics' Praise for Marc Zimmerman and his Illusions of Memory Autofiction Series: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wonderful writer.\" \u003cstrong\u003eLuis Alberto Urrea. author of \u003cem\u003eInto the Beautiful North.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\"An incredible opus. A good writer indeed.\"\u003cstrong\u003e Dick Goldberg\u003c\/strong\u003e, Playwright and screen writer, author of \u003cem\u003eFamily Business\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003eKeenly sensitive to ethno-communal borders\u003cem\u003e.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoberto Márquez\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eA World among these Islands\u003c\/em\u003e. \"I know of nothing like it in contemporary American fiction.\" \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Beverley\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAgainst Literature\u003c\/em\u003e. \"A writer with so many stories to tell.\" \u003cstrong\u003eCarolina Rivera Escamil\u003c\/strong\u003ela, L.A.-based Salvadoran author of \u003cem\u003e...after\u003c\/em\u003e. \"Zimmerman ... offers us wonderful, imaginative and truthful stories.\" \u003cstrong\u003eMarta E. Sánchez\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eContemporary Chicana Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. \"Some of the best stories fiction can provide.\" \u003cstrong\u003eAntonio Zavala\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003ePale Yellow Moon\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Borderlands to Minneapolis, from Mexico City to Chicago, Houston, and other points north and south, this book tells stories of Marc Zimmerman's vulnerable, at times reckless and feckless protagonist Mel, as he encounters Mexicans, Chicanos and others-men, women, LGBTQ people, writers and lovers-who enrich his knowledge of Mexican worlds that are ultimately parts of an amazing borderless maze-a labyrinth \"sin fronteras.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo initial Mexican encounters, several Mexican and Chicano\/a writers who come and go, a Chicano convict and maybe mafioso who has to go; five or six Minnesota Marías, a French-Mexican\/Jewish mis-alliance, predatory trips through Baja, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Jalisco and Acapulco, a Mexico City love affair throttled by personal insecurity and economic collapse; many ways to lose Chicana and other hers in Chicago-plus a Mexican Molly Bloomish transexual who goes from whoring, drinking and drugging to the brink of bright monogamous motorcycling marriage, as well as an L.A. Ashkenazi mother finally mourned by her lost son during a \u003cem\u003enoche de muertos\u003c\/em\u003e in a Michoacán cemetery. Among the writers portrayed are Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, Carlos Monsivaís, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rolando Hinojosa and unnamed others. All this and much more in a book roaming both sides of a bordered but borderless world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest known for his writings work on Central American, Mexican, Caribbean, Mexico, and U.S. Latino themes, Marc Zimmerman has written and edited over forty books. His \"Illusions of Memory\" autofiction series includes \u003cem\u003eThe Border TrilogyBlack, Brown and White on the Border, Sandino on the Border, \u003c\/em\u003e this volume and this new volume and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marc Zimmerman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46277991006449,"sku":"9798330400386","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9798330400386_p0.jpg?v=1765099196","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9798330400386","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}