Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Perhaps most striking about Mexican Eskimo is Frankoni’s ability to speak from the perspective of so many different people. Shifting from roughness to tenderness throughout the entire book creates a hyper-emotional landscape that is both intelligent and captivating. And although several characters are very difficult to like, he manages to give them a voices that are somehow relatable, in spite of very obvious shortcomings."
— Amelia Olson for Weekly Alibi, Albuquerque NM
Review
"The biting humor with which Frankoni reveals the historical setting of the first part of his trilogy allows the history on the page to come alive. But this isn’t the history of our high school textbooks — this is history as a living, breathing participant in the story. It’s all those odd facts that museum tour guides won’t tell you, but that are all you really care about."
— Shadia Savo for Fourteen Hills, The SFSU Review
Description
Mexican Eskimo is a story about growing up through space and time. It's a love story that weaves the silken threads of faith, trust and hope into a lifeline of spiritual guidance that tethers our present-day experience to a world of creation magic that existed so long before now, that time itself had not yet started to measure itself in years.
But beneath its wolf-skin facade of genre-bending magical realism, theoretical constructs of dream-travel and reincarnation, and a strong overlayer of liberal humanitarian politics, ultimately "Mexican Eskimo" is a story about women, told by a man raised by one that should have been treated much better than she was. Best described as a trip through the dark which ends up in the light, it’s a journey through time and the human condition, with a complex back-story featuring generations of unique characters—both human and otherwise—thrust together by fate and circumstance.
About the Author
Anker Frankoni is part Joker, part Thief, part Joyful, part Grief, but strives above all to be a Defender of the Right & Pursuer of Lofty Undertakings.
Connect with Anker on Twitter: @AnkerFrankoni