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Guadalupe Nettel, J.T. Lichtenstein (trans). The Body Where I Was Born. Seven Stories Press, 2015 (El cuerpo en que nací, 2011). I didn't know how to read it as fiction rather than memoir, nor what that reading would mean.

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.