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The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea cannot rightly be called a pleasure read since it deals with the fate of twenty-six Mexicans lost in the desert after a botched border crossing, but it is a brilliant read. The prose is often haunting and lyrical, and the images are hallucinatory and veer toward the magical realism in much of Latin-American fiction. The section depicting the final transport of the bodies to Phoenix for autopsy is a stunning bit of writing that I can only envy even as I applaud it. It's the sort of magic for which every writer hopes but which few achieve.
Well done, Sr. Urrea. If only the outcome hadn't been so grim.
Ever since the USPS misdelivered a package last week, I've been paranoid that important correspondence is disappearing into the ether or into a stranger's mailbox. I ordered some DVDs a week ago and am now convinced that they, too, were delivered into the wrong hands by a hapless postman eager to be shut of his appointed rounds. Likely not(at least I hope), but my dark surmises are tenacious, indeed, and if they don't turn up in a week, I might have to consider getting a P.O. box to stave off the steady advance of blithering idiocy.
Now that the electricity is no longer a substandard deathtrap, we've stocked the freezer and the cupboards and plan to snug in for the rest of the week with our books and DVDs.
Well done, Sr. Urrea. If only the outcome hadn't been so grim.
Ever since the USPS misdelivered a package last week, I've been paranoid that important correspondence is disappearing into the ether or into a stranger's mailbox. I ordered some DVDs a week ago and am now convinced that they, too, were delivered into the wrong hands by a hapless postman eager to be shut of his appointed rounds. Likely not(at least I hope), but my dark surmises are tenacious, indeed, and if they don't turn up in a week, I might have to consider getting a P.O. box to stave off the steady advance of blithering idiocy.
Now that the electricity is no longer a substandard deathtrap, we've stocked the freezer and the cupboards and plan to snug in for the rest of the week with our books and DVDs.
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