Christina Macsweeney

Aug 20, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Daniel Paris |Christina Macsweeney |Amy Tan |Steve Martin

Often heady, occasionally pretentious, and steeped in literary touchstones. A collection of autobiographical essays distorted through the lenses of memory and literature. Saldaña París writes of his time in Mexico City, Montreal, Madrid, and beyond as “an autobiographical melting” (borrowing a term from Robert Creeley), and he frequently uses the literary canon to shape his recollections.

Apr 2, 2024 | bookshop.org | Christina Macsweeney

(Author) (Translator) FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Description A debut novel of female friendship and coming-of-age from Jazmina Barrera, acclaimed author of Linea Nigra and On Lighthouses, translated by Christina MacSweeney. It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime.

Mar 12, 2024 | bookshop.org | Christina Macsweeney

"Though firmly rooted in the Latin American tradition of magic realism, Fury is something close to a self-contained masterpiece, and marks the arrival of a major new fictional talent (well-served by her translator Christina MacSweeney)."--Matthew d'Ancona, The New European "Leavened by a wonderful imagistic sensibility . .

Mar 4, 2024 | yalereview.org | Daniel Paris |Christina Macsweeney

Daniel Saldaña París Christina MacSweeney The fence is topped with barbed wire and winds between the shrubs, climbs dry hillsides, zigzags capriciously, and extends into the ocean for about a hundred yards. It stands tall and threatening, rusting in the sunlight, the northernmost limit of a dream gone bad. People peer through it, projecting hopes and a new version of themselves beyond the ICE patrols. There is no escape from this place. I came to Tijuana four years ago, after the accident.