Make a tax-deductible contribution today and get exclusive Vonnegut gear!

Guatemala’s “Crime of the Century”

By Jacob Wheeler

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, Harper’s and The New Yorker, Goldman penned three hauntingly beautiful novels, The Long Night ofreturn to article

Also by Jacob Wheeler
Popular Discussions