New book by Francisco Goldman is on his young wife Aura Estrada died bodysurfing accident at the Mexico in 2007. She was 30. There are many to say to his subject, including on his conduct ecstatic while on this planet. Its descriptions are so vivid that "say her name" practically comes with 3D glasses.
He compares her to a "Mexican Bjork" and Amélie, the heroine of the film lovely French and "Giulietta Masina clowns"strada. ".?"It catches his"shiny black eyes"and his"wheezily pealing laughter"and his"Goblin prettiness"and her gap-tooth smile." It absorbs his "axolotl eyes" after sex.
There was a bit of Jack Kerouac describing Dean Moriarty in the way he remembers Ms. Estrada striding the streets of Brooklyn. "That agile hopscotchlike jump she used to do on the sidewalk," written by Mr. Goldman, "" a heel blur, heel-kicking foot-back heel-kicking foot-back while advancing in a momentum-winged lowered down the sidewalk as if itself propulsion rear of his childhood in Copilco.""
These descriptions winsome, sad to say, are almost all you cling to in "Say Her Name," a move but fuzzy book which is the result of an aesthetic decision confusing: Mr. Goldman has delivered this (true) story as a novel rather than as straight up memoir. The result is somehow the worst of both worlds, a memory, you can not do trust and a novel with no complexity and achieve.
The title, "say her name", appears no longer as an imperative or a dark invitation. Suddenly, it is as if there is a question mark after it.
Mr. Goldman met with Ms. Estrada in New York, when she arrived from the Mexico for studies at Columbia University, a graduate Fulbright scholarship. He was a writer done - his novels include "The long night of White chickens" (1992) and "The Divine husband" (2004) - and it was promising. She was 25; He was pushing 50. They married in 2005.
"Speak her name" ignores the back and forth in time, and it contains many touching moments, some of them, an inventory of luminous objects now she's left behind: his MacBook still on his desk, his Hello Kitty toaster, some movies Netflix's wedding dresshis tea-Mint that Mr. Goldman shampoo continues to use in environmentally friendly good.
Mr. Goldman opens this MacBook, and Ms. Estrada logs and he reads what is inside. It prints a lot of content, their thoughts secret and juvenilia that it can never wanted the whole world.
This book details the battles of Mr. Goldman with the mother of Ms. Estrada, who was close to his daughter and never approved of the author. ("No Romeo mother hates more than Juliet", says Mr. Goldman.)
After the death of Ms. Estrada, the mother has prevented the ashes of the daughter of Mr. Goldman and accused to be existentially fault for the death, caused by a wave, it was bodysurfing apparently she leads in the sand, severing his spinal cord. According to the mother, Mr. Goldman writes, "I had failed to protect his own impulsiveness will."
Mother says her given: "you'll always have another chance, but I will never have another daughter."
Mr. Goldman convince you that Aura Estrada was a human being by radiation and its grief complicated flood story. The history of the accident itself and attempts to save his life, the author retains until the end of the book, are riveting. But "say her name" is a book that you can never quite give you more. You have read this story (old writer curved, source of life of a young woman) a hundred times, and by stealing this version of its gritty authenticity, he stole something essential. You are too busy, you wonder what details and dialogue are real - scenes from childhood? Since the early days of the marriage of his parents? -to submit to the spelling being expressed.
You do not believe Mr. Goldman when he sings of his grief too real: "perhaps memory is overestimated." It is better perhaps forget. "(Show me the Proust to forget, and I will him read tomorrow.)"
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