Corina is a young woman when she leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to go after her dreams in Paris. Her dream is to become a writer. But everything was more beautiful in Paris then in real life. In real life being a writer in Paris means running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call home from a broken pay phone befriending panhandling artists in the subway, sleeping on crowded attic floors, and dancing the tango at underground parties. She makes friends with Argentinian Martita and Italian Paola. But over the years the three of them fall out of touch as they move to different parts of the world. But then Corina She finds a letter that Marta ("Martita," fondly) wrote her years after they left Paris, ending with the line, "Don't forget me." This letter brings back all the memories of their time in Paris, and everything they experienced there.
This short story that exists of letters is half in English, half in Spanish.
Let's just start with the fact that it took a little time for me to figure out who the main character was and how she was related to the other two. There was also not a specific time era the story was set in, so that made it a little unclear at some points. The story itself, if you can call the letters that, was thin, it was mostly about what the three of them experienced during their time in Paris; stealing something from the Galeries Lafayette department store, eating baguettes, sitting on a bench at the Promenade des Anglais, showering with a bucket in Marta's disgusting apartment and some more. It all was a recollection of what they did, but further than that the story doesn't really go. Therefore it lacked length, I was surprised when the book suddenly ended, it really didn't felt like a finished story for me.
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