The Interior Circuit by Francisco Goldman

The Interior Circuit

A Mexico City Chronicle

Francisco Goldman

Grove/Atlantic · Print & ebook · August 7, 2015

“Remarkable Sentence by sentence, Goldman brings to life a city that is bewitching, terrifying, beautiful .Goldman brings something new to the [chronicle] form.”—John Freeman, Boston Globe The Interior Circuit is Sue Kaufman prize-winner Francisco Goldman’s brilliant chronicle of his emergence from grief five years after his beloved wife’s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City (the DF).

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Who it’s for
A close, roaming city chronicle with the feel of being let in on the conversation.
Genres
Personal Memoirs, Mexico Travel, Hispanic & Latino Biography
Published
Grove/Atlantic, August 7, 2015

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About this book

“Remarkable Sentence by sentence, Goldman brings to life a city that is bewitching, terrifying, beautiful .Goldman brings something new to the [chronicle] form.”—John Freeman, Boston Globe The Interior Circuit is Sue Kaufman prize-winner Francisco Goldman’s brilliant chronicle of his emergence from grief five years after his beloved wife’s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City (the DF).

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When organized crime erupts in the city in an unprecedented way during the summer of 2013, Goldman sets out to try to understand the menacing challenges the DF now faces. By turns exuberant, poetic, reportorial, philosophical, and urgent, The Interior Circuit fuses a personal journey to a searing account of one of the world’s most remarkable and often misunderstood great cities. “An indispensable contribution to the growing body of artistic representations of Mexico’s most recent years of darkness...there is an urgent, raw beauty in [Goldman’s] prose.”—Rubén Martínez, Los Angeles Review of Books

Inside the City

A close, roaming city chronicle with the feel of being let in on the conversation.

Come here for

  • Mexico City rendered as lived-in, shifting cityscape
  • Personal, social, and political currents braided together

Expect

  • Sustained immersion over tidy argument
  • A writerly, observant urban gaze

Where it sits

Personal Memoirs63%
Mexico Travel46%
Hispanic & Latino Biography24%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Personal Memoirs
  • 21st-Century History
  • Mexico Travel
Authors
Francisco Goldman
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic
Published
August 7, 2015
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Personal Memoirs