'It’s less a window than a funhouse mirror, one which reflects a vision of whiteness back on itself to disturbing effect.' –angiejaime
Mexican immigrants to the United States and their experiences at the border are simply missing from not only the pages of Cummin’s latest effort but from the cultural context, which gave way to its exaltation in the first place.
Ultimately, I find the disappointing issues within this catastrophe to be facets of the same flawed prism through which experiences are viewed when they are not our own. From a purely literary perspective, the novel’s prose fails because of an innate gap in knowledge; simply put, it’s a problem of notenough about an experience to portray it believably, because of lack of experience or lack of depth of research — and, perhaps, empathy.
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