PositiveThe New York Times Book Review\"This is a serious book of history but also an engaging project of reading the future in the past ... What is particularly fascinating about this book is that its encyclopedic project is not a rewriting of history but a recitation of readings. Almost each historical event is retold through memory, recording, evaluation and discussion. This is history as dialogue. It leaves the mourning authority of archives and takes its place as a long conversation, presupposing that truth can be reached through an extended pilgrimage, a journey through violence, discrimination, racism, exploitation and the inferno created by occupation ... Gibson lets the facts speak. But one would also like to read the saga of memory, that is, the version of the epic of El Norte through literature and fiction.\
