Mourning

In Mourning Eduardo Halfon's eponymous narrator travels to Poland Italy the U.S. and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory's strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland and to the contradictory forbidden stories of his father's Lebanese-Jewish immigrant family specifically surrounding the long-ago childhood death by drowning of his uncle Salom©đn. But what or who really killed Salom©đn? As he goes deeper he realizes that the truth lies buried in his own past in the brutal Guatemala of the 1970s and his subsequent exile to the American South.