Paperback – 209 pages

Praise for Marc Zimmerman and his Illusions of Memory autofiction books:
A wonderful writer.Luis Alberto Urrea,author ofInto the Beautiful North.An incredible opus.Dick Goldberg, author ofFamily Business.Keenly sensitive to ethno-communal borders.”Roberto Mrquez, author ofA World among these Islands.Nothing like it in contemporary American fiction.John Beverley, author ofAgainst Literature.A writer with so many stories to tell.Carolina Rivera Escamilla, Salvadoran author ofafter. Zimmerman offers us wonderful, imaginative and truthful stories.Marta E. Snchez, author ofContemporary Chicana Poetry. Some of the best stories fiction can provide.Antonio Zavala, author ofPale Yellow Moon.

From the Borderlands to Minneapolis, from Mexico City to Chicago, Houston, and other points north and south, this book tells stories of Marc Zimmermans vulnerable, at times reckless and feckless protagonist Mel, toward the end and in the aftermath of his second marriage as he encounters Mexicans, Chicanos and otherswomen, men, LGBTQ peoplewho enrich his knowledge of Mexican worlds that are ultimately parts of an amazing borderless mazealabyrinthsin fronteras.

Two Chicano writers who come and go, a Chicano convict and maybe mafioso who has to go,five or six Minnesota Maras, a French-Mexican/Jewish mis-alliance, predatory trips through Baja, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Jalisco and Acapulco, a Mexico City love affair throttled by personal weakness and economic collapse, his many ways to lose mexicanas and chicanas, plus a Mexican Molly Bloomish transgender woman who goes from whoring, drinking and drugging to the brink of blissful, monogamous and motorcycling marriageall this and much more in a book capped off by a“night of the deadin a Michoacn cemetery. So goes a collection marking out the maze encountered in this added installment of Zimmermans auto-fiction series.

Best known for his works on Central American, Mexican and U.S. Latino themes, Marc Zimmerman has written and edited over forty books. HisIllusions of Memoryseries includesThe Short of it All,The Italian Daze,Genesis,Two Ways West,No Light from Heaven,Lines on the Border, La Dolce Vita on the Northern Side,Sandino on the Border, Managua Mon Amour (Nevermore), plusMartn and Marvinand this new volume.

orthern Side,Sandino on the Border, Managua Mon Amour (Nevermore), plusMartn and Marvinand this new volume.