The memories we return to most frequently are the most inaccurate,
the least faithful to reality... This is the tragic realisation
made by the narrator of _Ramifications _as he tries to make sense
of the defining event of his childhood: the disappearance of his
mother to join the Zapatista uprising that shook Mexico in 1994.
Left behind with an emotionally distant father who is singularly
unqualified to raise him, and an older sister who only wants to get
on with being a teenager, he takes refuge in strange rituals that
isolate him from his peers: favouring the left-hand side of his
body, trying to tear leaves into perfect halves, obsessively
shaping origami figures. Now, two decades older and withdrawn from
the world, he folds and unfolds these memories, searching the
creases for the truth of what happened to his mother, unaware that
he is on the verge of a discovery that will destroy everything he
believed he knew about his family.Award-winning Mexican author
Daniel Saldana Paris masterfully evokes a child's attempts to
interpret events beyond his understanding. Less a Bildungs-roman
than a tale of arrested development, this story of a boy growing up
in the aptly-named Educacion neighbourhood of Mexico City is a rich
and moving portrait of a life thwarted by machismo and secrecy.
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