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An unconventional memoir written in a kaleidoscope of Spanish and English and packed with high literary drama, Killer Cronicas exposes Susana Chavez-Silverman as an original and skilled writer who manages to tell a story while slinging social commentary, academic discourse, and personal in-the-flesh details.
Written between 2001 and 2003, the twenty-four cronicas have origins in e-mail "missives" she fired at friends and colleagues while living in Buenos Aires in 2001; they take place mostly in Califas and Buenos Aires, with single entries set in Oaxaca, Spain, Chile, and South Africa. Chavez-Silverman is an associate professor of romance languages and literatures at Pomona College in California. Her work chronicles the (selected) moments of a wandering academic.
Whiffing samples of perfume with her partner at the Beverly Center mall in Los Angeles, or alone with merely a...