Boston-born author Francisco Goldman's American-Jewish and Guatemalan heritage has allowed him to move between those cultures and explore the complicated and often tragic relationship between his mother's homeland and El Norte. After covering the bloody civil wars in Central America in the 1980s for Esquire, [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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