Years of the Dead
The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.
"...Mexican culture, he calls back to Germany for a mail-order bride, the strong-willed Cosima Reiter. On the coach ride..."
Oct. 27, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza