A review by bshook
The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle by Francisco Goldman

4.0

This book could have used better editing as it never really coheres. Then again, maybe that's a fitting way to represent a place that one loves--through disjointed snippets of daily life, geography lessons, and a deep dive into that place's cruelest realities, in this case all through the lens of grief.

Goldman describes just about every young woman he meets in lascivious detail, like when he calls the teenaged sister of an abducted woman "a classic cheerleader type" whose "swath of brown belly showed in the space between her pressed T-shirt and spotless pale tight jeans." Could have done without that.