Am駻ica del Norte (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781641295642)

Moving between New York City, Mexico City, and Iowa City, a young member of the Mexican elite sees his life splinter in a centuries-spanning debut that blends the Latin American traditions of Roberto Bola and Fernanda Melchor with the autofiction of US writers like Ben Lerner and Teju Cole.

Sebasti疣 lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowa's MFA program.

But Sebasti疣's life is shaken by the Trump administration's restrictions on immigrants, his mother's terminal cancer, the cracks in his relationship, and his father's forced resignation at the hands of Mexico's new president. As he struggles through the Trump and Lez Obrador years, Sebasti疣 must confront his father's role in the Mexican drug war and navigate his whiteness in Mexican contexts even as he is often perceived as a person of color in the US. As he does so, the novel moves through centuries of Mexican literary history, from the 17th century letters of a peevishly polymathic Spanish colonizer to the contemporary packaging of Mexican writers for a US audience.

Split between the US and Mexico, this stunning debut explores whiteness, power, immigration, and the history of Mexican literature, to wrestle with the contradictory relationship between two countries bound by geography and torn apart by politics.

Author: Nicol疽 Medina Mora
ISBN-10: 1641295643
ISBN-13: 9781641295642
Publisher: Soho
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.80d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2023 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2024
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2024
Booklist 05/01/2024 pg. 17