A review by pceboll
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico by Juan Villoro

adventurous challenging informative reflective

3.0

A twisting literary map of the densely populated Mexico City, "Horizontal Vertigo" is a unique and enjoyable read! Villoro takes us on a tour of a city that is chaotic, beautiful, and elusive even to those who understand it the most. Villoro's personal accounts of living in Mexico City are laid out amongst essays on revolutionary history, portraits of traffic jams, and explorations of 1970 wrestler films creating the titular horizontal vertigo effect in the reader-sometimes this really worked and sometimes it didn't. This loving yet critical portrait of a "monster" held my attention for most of the time...but I got lost repeatedly on the way.