From 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, toward the end and in the aftermath of his second marriage as he encounters Mexicans, Chicanos and others—women, men, LGBTQ people—who enrich his knowledge of Mexican worlds that are ultimately parts of an amazing borderless maze—a labyrinth “sin fronteras.”
Two Chicano 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 weakness and economic collapse, his many ways to lose mexicanas and chicanas, plus a Mexican Molly Bloomish transgender woman who goes from whoring, drinking and drugging to the brink of blissful, monogamous and motorcycling marriage—all this and much more in a book capped off by a night of the dead in a Michoacán cemetery. So goes a collection marking out the maze encountered in this added installment of Zimmerman’s auto-fiction series.
Two Chicano 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 weakness and economic collapse, his many ways to lose mexicanas and chicanas, plus a Mexican Molly Bloomish transgender woman who goes from whoring, drinking and drugging to the brink of blissful, monogamous and motorcycling marriage—all this and much more in a book capped off by a night of the dead in a Michoacán cemetery. So goes a collection marking out the maze encountered in this added installment of Zimmerman’s auto-fiction series.