A Mexican Maze Without Borders

<p><strong>Critics' Praise for Marc Zimmerman and his Illusions of Memory Autofiction Series:</strong></p><p>A wonderful writer. <strong>Luis Alberto Urrea. author of <em>Into the Beautiful North.</em> </strong>An incredible opus. A good writer indeed.<strong> Dick Goldberg</strong> Playwright and screen writer author of <em>Family Business</em>. <strong></strong>Keenly sensitive to ethno-communal borders<em>. </em><strong>Roberto Márquez</strong> author of <em>A World among these Islands</em>. <u> </u>I know of nothing like it in contemporary American fiction. <strong>John Beverley</strong> author of <em>Against Literature</em>. <u> </u>A writer with so many stories to tell. <strong>Carolina Rivera Escamil</strong>la L.A.-based Salvadoran author of <em>...after</em>. Zimmerman ... offers us wonderful imaginative and truthful stories. <strong>Marta E. Sánchez</strong> author of <em>Contemporary Chicana Poetry</em>. Some of the best stories fiction can provide. <strong>Antonio Zavala</strong> author of <em>Pale Yellow Moon</em>.</p><p><br></p><p><u>From the Borderlands to Minneapolis from Mexico City to Chicago Houston and other points north and south this book tells stories of Marc Zimmerman's vulnerable at times reckless and feckless protagonist Mel as he encounters Mexicans Chicanos and others-men women LGBTQ people</u> writers and lovers<u>-who enrich his knowledge of Mexican worlds that are ultimately parts of </u>an<u> amazing borderless maze-a labyrinth sin fronteras. </u></p><p>                       </p><p><u>Two </u>initial Mexican encounters several Mexican and <u>Chican</u>o/a w<u>riters who come and </u>go <u>a Chicano convict and maybe mafioso who has to go</u>; <u>five or six Minnesota Marías a French-Mexican/Jewish mis-alliance predatory trips through Baja Sinaloa Chihuahua Jalisco and Acapulco a Mexico City love affair throttled by personal </u>insecurity <u>and economic collapse; many ways to lose Chicana and other hers in Chicago</u>-<u>plus a Mexican Molly Bloomish trans</u>exual <u>who goes from whoring drinking and drugging to the brink of bright monogamous motorcycling marri</u>ag<u>e</u> as well <u>a</u>s an L.A. Ashkenazi mother finally mourned by her lost son during a<u> </u><em><u>noche de muertos</u></em><u> in a Michoacán cemetery</u>. Among the writers portrayed are Carlos Fuentes Octavio Paz Carlos Monsivaís Luis Alberto Urrea Rolando Hinojosa and unnamed others. A<u>ll this and much more in a bo</u>o<u>k roaming both sides of a bordered but borderless world</u>.<u> </u></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Best known for his writings <u>work </u>on Central American<u> Mexic</u>an Caribbean<u> </u> Mexico and U.S. Latino themes Marc Zimmerman has written and edited over forty books. His <u>Illusions of Memory</u> autofiction<u> series</u> includes<u> </u><em>The Border TrilogyBlack Brown and White o<u>n the Border Sandino on the Border</u></em><u> this volume</u> and this new volume and many others.</p><p><strong>                                        </strong></p><p><br></p>