![]() The haunting isn’t made transparent until the middle of the book (which I won’t give away), but before the gritty swerve, Gurba describes her herky-jerky coming of age in Southern California. Gurba goes on to recount the rape and murder of Sophia Castro Torres, a Chicana who was initially described by news reports as a “transient.” As a Chicana herself (or “Molack” - her mother is Mexican, and her father is Mexican-Polish), Gurba can’t get Torres out of her head. As the scene unravels, though, it grows more ominous, one where a “dark-haired girl walks alone.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Myriam Gurba’s searing memoir “Mean” begins with an invocation: “Let’s become a spot upon which fateful moonlight shines,” thus setting up a seemingly innocuous scene in a Little League Baseball field. ![]()
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