Author : Isabella Tree
Release : 2008-01-30
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Sliced Iguana by : Isabella Tree
Download or read book Sliced Iguana written by Isabella Tree. This book was released on 2008-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the facade of sombreros and tequila, tourist traps and holiday resorts, there lies a very different Mexico. In Sliced Iguana, Isabella Tree finds a town controlled by arm-wrestling matriarchs and party-mad transvestites and in war-torn Chiapas she discovers shamans worshipping Mayan gods inside Catholic churches and conducting exorcisms with the aid of Pepsi. This is a story of Mexico like no other, capturing the essence of its psyche and illuminating the struggles and hopes of a people and a country on the cusp of change.