A review by pearloz
Resistance by Julián Fuks

4.0

Wonderful novel, about the author/narrator and his brother. Mostly about the history of his brother, adopted before the author or their sister were born. I really liked how the author judiciously, meticulously laid out the family history as it wove in and out of the history of Argentina. Then, somewhere in the middle, the revelation...the grandmother's protest. The grandmothers of Argentina lamenting and looking for their grandchildren, grandchildren born to children that had been kidnapped and disappeared; the grandchildren, taken from their families, placed in the homes of the elites, dignitaries, ranking officials...narrator's father?

I found the ending slightly gimmicky with the parents reading the book we're reading, but when our narrator visits his brother, that very last page was a heartbreaker. I love Charco Press so much.