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InItzel II, we continue to follow Nauta, Itzel, and Basta through the cascading outcomes of their desire for agency and for change in their world. We move from the Oaxaca coast back to Mexico City, from Nauta's Brooklyn streets to her time in Canada, from the attraction between Basta and Itzel that has altered the characters' friendship to the rumours and reckonings that result. The 1971 Halconazo is brought alive by the author's intimate knowledge of an event that was in part organized from her phone. Nauta sees herself once more wielding the knife she has carried since puberty, as she is brought face to face not just with the violence of others but with her own.

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Sarah Murphy has done the undo-able: written, in strange magnificent future-tense prose about events that were kept hidden until 30 years after they?d been perpetrated. We understand the movement that culminated in Tlatelolco and the country that produced it, finally, as we come to understand Nauta, Itzel, Basta and the others who populate this rich and rewarding novel. Is it a novel? Memoir? Who cares? It must be read. -- Margaret Randall, author of Che on My Mind, Hayd?e Santamaria, Cuban Revolutionary, and Exporting Revolution The dazzling fluency, the technical virtuosity, the energy and exuberance -- they?re all here. Sarah Murphy is entertaining and reckless and wittily self-conscious about language and story-telling, but make no mistake: She is a literary and political subversive. If you haven't read her before, hold onto your hat. You are in for a wild ride. -- Ken McGoogan, author of Fatal Passage, Lady Franklin's Revenge, and Flight of the Highlanders In this audacious novel of many mixed ancestries, Sarah Murphy writes beautifully not only of but within the lives of exiles, thoughtful lives in haunted Mexico, lives that teem with the blockages and narrow escapes we call history. Such tenderness and intelligence are rarely found within the same covers. She plants them all over Itzel for the hungry reader. -- Todd Gitlin, author of Occupy Nation and The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage

Sarah Murphy has done the undo-able: written, in strange magnificent future-tense prose about events that were kept hidden until 30 years after they?d been perpetrated. We understand the movement that culminated in Tlatelolco and the country that produced it, finally, as we come to understand Nauta, Itzel, Basta and the others who populate this rich and rewarding novel. Is it a novel? Memoir? Who cares? It must be read. -- Margaret Randall, author of Che on My Mind, Haydee Santamaria, Cuban Revolutionary, and Exporting Revolution The dazzling fluency, the technical virtuosity, the energy and exuberance -- they?re all here. Sarah Murphy is entertaining and reckless and wittily self-conscious about language and story-telling, but make no mistake: She is a literary and political subversive. If you haven't read her before, hold onto your hat. You are in for a wild ride. -- Ken McGoogan, author of Fatal Passage, Lady Franklin's Revenge, and Flight of the Highlanders In this audacious

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Prize winning author of eight books of fiction and memoir, Sarah Xerar Murphy is also widely recognized for her spoken word performance, and social justice work. Her bi-racial, bilingual and multicultural background combine with long-term residence in all three of North America's largest countries to bring electrifying authenticity to her creations. She currently resides in Bocabec, NB.

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