"The first full-length study of this remarkable third-generation Guatemalan Jewish writer brings to critical attention the intricacies and subtleties of Halfon’s richly figured nuanced work and the way in which memory shapes both identity and the imagination."
—Victoria Aarons, author of Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women’s Graphic Narratives
"Miller has produced a heretofore lacking comprehensive analysis of Halfon's oeuvre available in English. The result is an insightful study of the unapologetic wandering Jew and modern Latinx author who seeks reality and originality through fiction writing, aiming to find a home in a perennial adopted language and in translation, if nowhere else. Miller’s study probes assumed parameters of Jewish and Latinx literatures by analyzing inconclusive identities of belonging inherited through multiple diasporas, a result of compounded migrations and languages."
—Dalia Wassner, author of Harbinger of Modernity: Marcos Aguinis and the Democratization of Argentina
“Miller has written a thoughtful, considered, multilayered analysis of one of the most important contemporary Jewish-Latin American/American writers. The commentary on Halfon’s work is insightful yet accessible and will be a valuable resource for literary scholars.”
—Avinoam J. Patt, coeditor of The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction