Blogging Bolaño 2666 6/28

Got a while further through Bolaño in the afternoon, though the insufferable heat sapped my initiative. The murders are really picking up in Santa Teresa, and a panorama of Mexican society emerges. From the crookedest cop to the simplest psychic, and through the jails, streets, bordellos and borders of México we go. Some gringos make appearances, though the preferred nomenclature is the ‘North Americans’; but the most numerous and saddest characters in 2666 are the young women.