Status Updates From Montevidéu

“For years I engaged in a kind of secret ‘saudade,’ a strange overseas longing, a wistfulness about a place I had never been and wasn’t sure I’d ever gave the chance to go. That place was Montevideo.”

“It made me laugh to think that I’d gone to Paris to turn into a North American from another time and had ended up selling drugs to North Americans of the here and now.”