Sentimental Deportation: A Memoir

Kindness, the workaday love, rides and cossets the orderly days as expected, and perhaps the minds of those who live in confidence, but kindness also pops up in strange quarters and circumstances, bestowing grace upon menace, for instance. A round-up operation required that people sit in the car and...

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Published in:The Antioch review 2012, Vol.70 (1), p.8
Main Author: McCoy, Maureen
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Americans abroad
Biographies
Cartels
Coming of age
Deportation
Imprisonment
Mexican culture
Poetry
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Summary:Kindness, the workaday love, rides and cossets the orderly days as expected, and perhaps the minds of those who live in confidence, but kindness also pops up in strange quarters and circumstances, bestowing grace upon menace, for instance. A round-up operation required that people sit in the car and watch as Jorge and his men--the second sidekick had materialized again--plucked more young pie-eyed Americans out of hidden cabanas spotting the deeply still mountaintop area they had bumped past on the bus. Among other things McCoy shares that serendipitous kindness has been known to rescue fools, blunderers, miscreants, and misguided youth arrested in Mexico, all of which describe him at a certain time of life.
ISSN:0003-5769
0003-5769
2326-9707
DOI:10.7723/antioch.70.1.0008