Status Updates From Salvador

This is barely over 100 pages yet I’m struggling—even though I love Didion’s writing. Upsetting subject matter.

Really good discussion in here about the modern/post-modern tendency to prioritize messaging and narrative over, you know, reality. And we gringos sure love doing this! 80s El Salvador seems like a premonition of the GWOT/
onwards spin zone we have all come to know and love. As Joan says elsewhere, “we tell ourselves stories in order to live”

She’s cooking with this