Pages of Mourning

"Aureliano Más may be named for 19 characters from One Hundred Years of Solitude and may hail from Comala, Mexico, the literal ghost town in Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Páramo, but he sees magical realism as pure fantasy that serves to soothe a country riven by forced disappearances. Pages of Mourning follows Aureliano’s attempts to dismantle the genre as he writes a novel about his mother, who vanished when he was an infant. It’s an inventive work of metafiction that grapples with the horrific realities of Mexico’s drug wars and the families left grieving without bodies to bury."