Just when you think no one can write a book better than the last one you enjoyed on love, family or even loss, someone else usually seems to come up with something equally good or even better. That said, we live in a world that appears to have a preference for the male writers but these Mexican women have excelled in writing about loss.
The Gringo Champion by Aura Xilonen
This is a tale about identity loss and a feeling of losing your place. Aura wrote it as a teenager. You, the reader, might in a way find yourself at a loss at first as you read into the violent first few pages which are very strongly translated. The experience is similar to the one you get when you first pick up “A Clockwork Orange” to read. Some claim that novels can be a bit wormy and even disemvoweling but you can be sure that The Gringo Champion is nothing like that.