América del Norte

May 21, 2024 | nytimes.com | América del Norte |Nicolas Medina Mora

AMÉRICA DEL NORTE, by Nicolás Medina MoraThe grandiose title of Nicolás Medina Mora's first novel, "América del Norte" ("North America"), gives a good sense of its ironic tone and its unabashed desire to include everything on the continent, past and present: Hernán Cortés, Montezuma, NAFTA, the war on drugs, Trump, AMLO, José Vasconcelos, Alfonso Reyes, the murdered students of Ayotzinapa - even the Iowa Writers' Workshop.