Description
A hybrid collection of crónicas, journalism, and personal essays, this book confronts the long shadow of systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and its reverberations across the border. Moving between lived experience and reported detail, the author traces how fear reshapes daily life—and how language, testimony, and attention can become forms of resistance when grief threatens to swallow everything. Across its dispatches, the collection examines mourning not only as private feeling but as a public, political condition shaped by institutions, power, and impunity. With a lyrical, incisive style that blends literary craft and investigative urgency, it offers a searching meditation on what it means to keep speaking—and to keep seeing—inside a wounded country.
Available Editions
paperback
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published Oct 6, 2020
168 pages
ISBN: 9781936932931
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Details
First Published
2020
Language
eng
Translation
From: spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Grieving by Cristina Rivera Garza.