Thirteenth finish of the year.
Good but challenging. I had intended this one for another prompt, but a couple of the stories were a little difficult for me to keep track of the thread due to what I would understand to be stream of consciousness narrative. If I am wrong about that, then I don't want to know, and I don't want to read any more of that this year. :) But I have to say this really was good, and really got me worked up about politics then (1930s) and now.
Fourteenth finish of the year.
This was a new ebook available at the library through the Boundless App, and I thought I'd give it a try for the 'Includes Latin American History Prompt.' I couldn't get it to download to my Kindle, so I had to read it on my phone, which is not my preferred method of reading, but it was okay, especially since this is a compilation of a dozen short stories rather than one continuous novel. I enjoyed the stories and their diversity. Some took place in Guatemala, others were about Guatemalans in the U.S. One was about a Hollywood movie being filmed in a Guatemalan village. The Maya religion plays a part in some of the stories; others refer to conquistadores and colonization with Catholicism converting the indigenous people.
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