Sidewalks

There were chapters that one could connect with less, such as the exploration of names in the cemetery (though genius no doubt). But the whole book is worth the chapter "Alternative Routes," an exploration of a city by bike and investigation into the untranslatable "saudade." Sidewalks takes setting to heart and makes it the plot--place is the story.

THis is a really nice book of interconnected essays. They get better as you go along.

An amazing book, easy to follow, but leaves you feeling like you've just taken an adventure in your armchair. Excellent perspective from the author, explained just enough to paint the picture of what's going on, and just the right amount of allowance for your own mind to fill in the gaps. Nicely done!

Her writing is way overrated, i have neverRead someone who wants to be the female version of Sergio Pitol.This book is as haphazard as her op-edPiece in New York Times in 2018.Dont waste your eyesight on that either

If you could, you would live like Luiselli, intelligent, serene, observant, without pretense.

"Commercial aircraft—with their minute windows and seats that recline just a few stingy degrees—bear no relationship to the essential nature of what man first glimpsed in the flight of birds." This is the sort of profundity one is treated to time and again in this collection of musings. Luiselli is a talented, intelligent writer, but this is a weak collection whose offerings rarely rise above the jottings of a writer with a notebook, a cafe table, and time to kill. In the same collection Luiselli writes, "Perhaps learning to speak is realizing, little by little, that we can say nothing about anything.” If that's so, the same might be said of learning to write, in which case many passages in this book are illustrative. Read Faces in the Crowd, a much stronger performance.

I have read this book in Spanish. Valeria Luiselli s amazing if you want to learn about Mexico city everyday life. This book is about my former neighborhood and that's why I bought it so my new family gets to read where I come form in the words of a very clever and fresh writer. As for the seller, the book is in very bad condition so I was not very impressed wit the price and description.

The essays are interesting but not as original as I expected from the reviews. Not on the level of a John Berger or Joseph Brodsky.

thank you

Weird but fun