MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city
in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and
tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and
misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot
spot for international business, fashion, and art, and a magnet for
thrill-seeking expats from around the world.
In 2002, Daniel Hernandez traveled to Mexico City, searching for
his cultural roots. He encountered a city both chaotic and
intoxicating, both underdeveloped and hypermodern. In 2007, after
quitting a job, he moved back. With vivid, intimate storytelling,
Hernandez visits slums populated by ex-punks; glittering,
drug-fueled fashion parties; and pseudo-native rituals catering to
new-age Mexicans. He takes readers into the world of youth
subcultures, in a city where punk and emo stand for a whole way of
life--and sometimes lead to rumbles on the streets.
Surrounded by volcanoes, earthquake-prone, and shrouded in smog,
the city that Hernandez lovingly chronicles is a place of
astounding manifestations of danger, desire, humor, and beauty, a
surreal landscape of "cosmic violence." For those who care about
one of the most electrifying cities on the planet, ""Down &
Delirious in Mexico City "is essential reading" (David Lida, author
of "First Stop in the New World").
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