MixedAmericas QuarterlyMedina Mora’s lively intelligence and humor compensates for some of his narrator’s less agreeable tendencies ... América del Norte has a formidable goal: to define the contradictions of contemporary North America and its elites. But where those contradictions overcome the author’s own powers of observation, the book breaks down into its constituent parts: a literary CV in the American context, and the diary of a junior in the Mexican one.
