Travel advisory : stories of Mexico stories of Mexico / David Lida

Bewitched -- Free trade -- Taxi -- A beach day -- La quedada -- Regrets -- Prenuptial agreement -- The recruiting officer -- Shuttered -- Acapulco gold

Sometimes viciously funny, sometimes achingly sad, the stories' unique characters include a woman journalist who finds more realism than magic while visiting a witch in a backwater swamp; a gay video producer in Mexico City who has a fateful encounter with an American grad student; and a nine-year-old child living on the streets of Acapulco until he encounters a form of rescue from an opportunistic American. Lida's stories dramatically illustrate what happens when Mexicans' and Americans' expectations of one another are fulfilled -- or turned inside out.

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