How to Look Away
On American Cruelty and the Refusal to Disappear
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Daniel Peña
In How to Look Away, Daniel Peña explores how fringe elements of his Texas childhood—AM radio, conspiracy theories, Post-Cold War paranoia—came to dominate the American political discourse and contributed to our extreme tolerance of human rights abuses against migrants from Latin America and elsewhere. He asks: What compels us to look away from these abuses? And how do we wake ourselves into action?
These evocative essays braid journalism, cultural criticism, and memoir, roaming from the vestigial Comanche War battlefields of his native Austin, to the black markets of Mexico City, to the home of a cartel hitman’s family doomed to live in the unglamorous aftermath of his crimes. Writing from both Mexico and the United States, Daniel Peña reflects on two childhood fears: demons and the death penalty. Or the answer to the question, “Do you ever really belong to yourself?” A question that serves as the looking glass through which Peña meditates on American citizenship and the kinds of people we are willing to disappear in the name of the American project.
How to Look Away conjures disquiet and longing beside clarity and hope as it offers a haunting account of the strange bond between two nations, this American moment, and the land upon which our bodies stand.
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“Sharp, thrilling, and strange in the best possible way, Daniel Peña’s How to Look Away is a profound and fiercely contemporary collection. From bicycling at night in Berlin amid a global pandemic to the black-market stalls of Mexico City to the corruption, rhetoric, and noxious climate of our current cultural landscape, Peña’s essays are like bolts of lightning, dangerous and illuminating.”—Mark Haber, author of Lesser Ruins
“Apt that How to Look Away is set in the typeface Dante because Daniel Peña is the Virgil we need right now. In blistering essay after essay, he safely guides us through the many circles of American cruelty until we emerge on the other side. With Joan Didion’s ear and Ryszard Kapuściński’s eye, this lyrical and luminous book is destined to become a classic.”—Tomás Q. Morín, author of Cat Love
“Apt that How to Look Away is set in the typeface Dante because Daniel Peña is the Virgil we need right now. In blistering essay after essay, he safely guides us through the many circles of American cruelty until we emerge on the other side. With Joan Didion’s ear and Ryszard Kapuściński’s eye, this lyrical and luminous book is destined to become a classic.”—Tomás Q. Morín, author of Cat Love
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