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A riveting, kaleidoscopic portrait of the American compulsion toward cruelty and our power to subvert it from an award-winning contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times.
In How to Look Away, Daniel Peña explores how fringe elements of his Texas childhood-AM radio, conspiracy theories, Post-Cold War paranoia-came to dominate the American political discourse and contributed to our extreme tolerance of human rights abuses against migrants from Latin America and elsewhere. He asks: What compels us to look away from these abuses? And how do we wake ourselves into action?
These evocative essays braid journalism, cultural criticism, and memoir, roaming from the vestigial Comanche War battlefields of his native Austin, to the black markets of Mexico City, to the home of a cartel hitman's family doomed to live in the unglamorous aftermath of his crimes. Writing from both Mexico and the United States, Daniel Peña...