tracithomas 's review for:

Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

5.0

informative reflective medium-paced

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This book is very good. The first half where she relies more on memoir was less good to me than the second half where she really digs into the cultural criticism. The criticism is there in the early parts too, but it really works in the end. So razor sharp and thought through. Pop culture treated as high art (thank god) and it really works.