Playing the Gringo Wild Card

Chesa Boudin’s Latin American diaries.

By Brittany Shoot

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 [RETURN TO ARTICLE]