Perpendicular Lives
Enrigue, Alvaro / Raymond, Matthew
Born under strange circumstances to a high-society teenager and a pentagenarian
entrepreneur, Jerónimo Rodriguez Loera is off to an inauspicious start?then things get worse.
Through an assemblage of records, letters, and firsthand testimony of Jerónimo's past lives,
Álvaro Enrigue creates a rich, observant, and dryly humorous account of class and clashing in
Mexican society. Perpendicular Lives opens in 1930s Guadalajara, but as Jerónimo stru...