The People of Paper
by Salvador Plascencia
Characters who know they're in a novel. They revolt.
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A Mexican immigrant community in El Monte, California, wages war against their author — literally. Characters organize to hide their thoughts from the narrator who keeps exposing them. Plascencia writes himself into the novel and his characters rebel against his control. Experimental, funny, heartbroken, and completely original. A dispatch about immigration, loss, and storytelling that uses the novel form to argue about who gets to tell whose story.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Mexico • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Mexican author
