The Interior Circuit
A Mexico City Chronicle
Grove/Atlantic · Print & ebook · August 7, 2015
Remarkable Sentence by sentence, Goldman brings to life a city that is bewitching, terrifying, beautiful .Goldman brings something new to the [chronicle] form.”John Freeman, Boston Globe The Interior Circuit is Sue Kaufman prize-winner Francisco Goldman’s brilliant chronicle of his emergence from grief five years after his beloved wife’s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City (the DF).
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- Who it’s for
- A close, roaming city chronicle with the feel of being let in on the conversation.
- Genres
- Personal Memoirs, Mexico Travel, Hispanic & Latino Biography
- Published
- Grove/Atlantic, August 7, 2015
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Remarkable Sentence by sentence, Goldman brings to life a city that is bewitching, terrifying, beautiful .Goldman brings something new to the [chronicle] form.”John Freeman, Boston Globe The Interior Circuit is Sue Kaufman prize-winner Francisco Goldman’s brilliant chronicle of his emergence from grief five years after his beloved wife’s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City (the DF).
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When organized crime erupts in the city in an unprecedented way during the summer of 2013, Goldman sets out to try to understand the menacing challenges the DF now faces. By turns exuberant, poetic, reportorial, philosophical, and urgent, The Interior Circuit fuses a personal journey to a searing account of one of the world’s most remarkable and often misunderstood great cities. An indispensable contribution to the growing body of artistic representations of Mexico’s most recent years of darkness...there is an urgent, raw beauty in [Goldman’s] prose.”Rubén Martínez, Los Angeles Review of Books
Inside the City
A close, roaming city chronicle with the feel of being let in on the conversation.
Come here for
- Mexico City rendered as lived-in, shifting cityscape
- Personal, social, and political currents braided together
Expect
- Sustained immersion over tidy argument
- A writerly, observant urban gaze
Where it sits
| Personal Memoirs | 63% |
|---|---|
| Mexico Travel | 46% |
| Hispanic & Latino Biography | 24% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- 21st-Century History
- Mexico Travel
- Authors
- Francisco Goldman
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic
- Published
- August 7, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs