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    The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
    The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
    The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
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    The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle

    By Francisco Goldman

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    The Pulitzer Prize–finalist shares an intimate memoir of grieving his lost wife—and confronting the troubled Mexican city where she grew up.

    Five years after his wife’s untimely death, Francisco Goldman decided to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City. The widower and award-winning writer wanted to fully embrace his late wife’s childhood home and the city that came to mean so much to them. In The Interior Circuit, Goldman chronicles his personal and political awakening to the nuances of this unique city as he learns to navigate the “circuito interior,” its crisscrossing network of highway-like roads.

    Many regard Mexico’s capital—then known as the “DF” or Distrito Federal—as a haven from the social ills that plague the rest of the country. Goldman’s account reveals a more complicated truth as he explores the effects of Mexico’s raging narco war, the resurgence of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (the PRI), and new eruptions of organized crime-related violence.

    Part travelogue, part memoir, and part political reportage, The Interior Circuit “is so sneakily brilliant it’s hard to put into words. . . . It is also, in the finest sense, a book that creates its own form” (Los Angeles Times).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 2, 2014
    ISBN9780802192639
    The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
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    Francisco Goldman

    Francisco Goldman (Boston, 1954) ha publicado cinco novelas y dos libros de no ficción. Sus novelas han sido finalistas de diversos certámenes, incluyendo el Premio PEN/Faulkner en dos ocasiones. Monkey Boy fue finalista del premio Pulitzer de ficción 2022.

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    • 4/5
      Moving from the deeply personal, to the deeply political. I couldn't predict where this was going, and that made me love it.
    • 3/5
      I love his use of Spanish in the English. Very interesting how he maintains Mexico is safe while he describes routine violent crimes, but I see there really are two Mexicos now.
    • 3/5
      Goldman is an author and journalist who divides his time between NYC and Mexico City (District Federal or DF for short). The book is a chronicle or memoir of his life in the DF. His late wife was a Mexican national and writer, and he is still mourning and exploring her loss. The interior circuit refers to the highway loop around the DF. Driving is an immense challenge in the city, and he takes driving lessons in order to master the chaotic traffic. He takes a city map guide and randomly opens it and places his finger on a map; he the drives to that location. The book is very atmospheric and gives you insight as to what it is like to live there. Interestingly, he never mentions the air pollution, which our media seem to emphasize. He does note that contrary to popular belief in the United States, the DF itself is not very dangerous and has a lower crime rate than many US major cities. Outside the DF it is a different matter. As a journalist, he investigates a mass kidnapping from a nightclub, and in the process you learn a lot more about Mexican politics than you can from US media. In short, if want to know more about Mexico itself, this book will serve you well. It is well written, but the peppering of names of Mexican authors activists, politicians and narcos presumes a background knowledge on the readers part that necessitated a lot of googling on my part. Of course that leads to even more enrichment.

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