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El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico CityBUY NOW
Mexico City, the mother of all megacities, is known for chaos, overpopulation, and an extreme gap between rich and poor.John Ross—poet, journalist, activist—first visited the city in 1957 with fellow Bay Area Beats as an expatriate escape.He eventually moved to the place he has come to call “The Monster” just one week after the devastating earthquake of 1985, which killed 30,000 people.EL MONSTRUO is his gritty, vibrant People’s History of 23 million, told from the ground up.
Ross’s last book, MURDERED BY CAPITALISM was called a “must read” by NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” and a “Best Book of 2004” by the San Francisco Chronicle. Ross’s fifty years covering Mexico for an array of Mexican and U.S. publications including the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Nation, and The Progressive put him in an extraordinary position to tell the complete story of its capital with great insight, and with his quixotic passion and poet’s touch he brings a beat to the narrative that is both of the city and of himself.
