MixedThe San Antonio CurrentWith less to hold readers’ interest, one begins to pay more attention to Castro’s habit of writing about his life as though it’s played out in a series of neat lessons. Every couple of pages, he stops the action to spell out what he learned from whatever action he’s just described. There’s a moral to just about every story ... despite its shortcomings, An Unlikely Journey is worth reading for what it says about Castro’s and his brother’s early development and, more importantly for local readers, San Antonio’s transition to a more politically open and diverse city ... Will many readers outside of Texas take notice? We’ll see in a couple of weeks, but my guess is that if Castro is the Democrats’ presidential nominee in 2020, it won’t be on the strength of An Unlikely Journey.
