I'm currently traveling through the Americas, and we're in MX for another 1.5 months. I've learned quite a lot about the culture and the history here over the previous 1.5 months from seeing the sights and lots of museums, but I'd love to get deeper into books about Mexico as well while I'm here.
So far, I've read Midnight in MX (autobiography by Alfredo Corchado) and Gods of Jade and Shadow (YA fantasy/sf set in the post-Porforico period). I really liked both, though neither scratched the historical fiction itch.
For a little bit more context, I've spent some time in Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Querotaro, CDMX, and I'm currently in Puebla.
I'm not looking for anything specific, but I won't say no to pieces set in specific periods (e.g. viceroyalty, independence movement, early independence, French intervention, etc), or multigenerational spanning epics (like 1000 years of solitude), and I'm especially a sucker for magical realism, SF, or accounts from travelers.
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Carlos Fuentes, Gringo viejo/The old Gringo
Octavio Paz biography of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz and Hayden Herrera’s biography on Frida Kahlo.
Pedro Paramo is considered the foundational work of Magic Realism and influenced GGM. It’s kind of a fever dream of a read.