Things I Cannot Say

Elssie Cano's writing is fearless. The contradictions her character Elina embodies bring to mind the film "Everything Everywhere All at Once," with its epic and anarchic sweep of history that threatens to engulf both her and, by extension, the reader. Teeming within Elina's tragi-comic "multiverse" live characters struggling to come to terms with the epic debates of our time--great migrations, the legacy of US imperialism, the violence and exploitation of capitalism, and the loss and disill...