The Mexican Cultural Institute of Los Angeles presents Marc Zimmerman, best known for his work on Mexican, Central American and U.S. Latino themes, Marc Zimmerman has written and edited over forty books. His Illusions of Memory series includes, The Short of it All, The Italian Daze, Genesis, Two Ways West, No Light from Heaven, Lines on the Border, La Dolce Vita on the Northern Side, Sandino on the Border, Managua Mon Amour (Nevermore), plus Martín and Marvin and now his Mexican Maze without Borders.

About A Mexican Maze Without Borders:

From the California Borderlands to Minneapolis, from Mexico City to Chicago, Houston, and other points north and south, Zimmerman’s latest book tells stories of his vulnerable, at times reckless and feckless protagonist Mel, toward the end and in the aftermath of his second marriage as he meets Mexicans, Chicanos and others—women, men, the LGBTQ community—who enrich his knowledge of Mexican worlds that mark an amazing borderless maze—a labyrinth “sin fronteras” (without borders).

Two Chicano writers who come and go, a Chicano maybe mafioso ex-con who has to go, five or six Minnesota Marías, a French-Mexican/Jewish mis-alliance, predatory moves through Baja, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Jalisco and Acapulco, a Mexico City love affair marred by personal weakness and economic collapse, his many ways to lose Chicago mexicanas and chicanas—all this and much more in a book capped off by a “night of the dead” in a Michoacán cemetery.

This presentation will be mainly in English, with some Spanish.

To learn more about Zimmerman, click here.

The Mexican Cultural Institute of Los Angeles is a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting the expression of traditional and contemporary art and culture from the Mexican and Mexican American perspective.