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Translations Cristina Rivera-Garza. No One Will See Me Cry. Andrew Hurley, tr. Willimantic, Connecticut. Curbstone. 2003. 229 pages. $15.95. ISBN 1-880684-91-8
How DOES A WOMAN GO CRAZY and how does a man become a photographer of crazy people are only two of many crucial questions that Cristina Rivera-Garza has answered brilliantly in her recent novel No One Will See Me Cry. Through the characterization of its main protagonists, Matilda Burgos and Joaquin Buitrago, RiveraGarza portrays a kaleidoscopic vision of Mexican history between 1885 and 1958. Some of its phases include: an indigenous family devoted to the harvest of vanilla pods in Papantla who lost their mental sanity and life after...