As Julia Alvarez said, “We’re too small a planet to think that you can hold yourself in and knock yourself down.” Summer Reading Diary: Strength and quietude in Mexico
loaned me about a year and a half ago but got buried in a ceiling-high book pile. I devouredin the pool, finished it three hours later after my toes pruned, and was mildly depressed there wasn’t more to shrivel up to. Gurba is a beautifully lyrical writer but doesn’t get lost in her prose, and the “meanness” she ascribes to herself in the title is a shorthand meridian connecting her sharp intellect, charisma, and resolve.
We tore out of her bedroom and sped into town. We got a cheeseburger and fries, split them between us, and gobbled them up before parking under a magnolia tree. We headed to the buildings behind the church. Back there, the hallways felt schoolish. A brick propped open a door. We walked into youth group.
Three boys looked at us from their chairs. Their eyes moved up and down. I couldn’t believe Ida didn’t understand this. She went to youth group because she was in love with Jesus. Everyone else went for sex.
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