A review by chillcox15
The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra

2.0

I'm a bit reticent about this book, mainly because I know very little about the Basque separatist movement that Gabriela Ybarra's grandfather falls victim to, and where I fall on the political spectrum in relation to the Ybarras. Is it a bit of an appeal to empathy for those in power and on the wrong side of history? Maybe! I'm not sure yet! Even beyond that, it's not necessarily great in terms of structure and conceit, either, doing very little of interest with the connective fibers between the two deaths in Ybarra's life.