One part political report, one part self-confident travelogue, Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America (Scribner, April) is Chesa Boudin’s sensitive and elegantly written memoir about his near-decade-long personal journey through Central and South America between 1999 and 2007. The author is the son of incarcerated political activists David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin (Boudin was freed in 2003 after serving… return to article
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