![]() ![]() Hernandez’s personal quest, which could have centered the book, never becomes compelling. ![]() Because of this, the observations rarely transcend the journalistic generalities found in the average feature story. Skimming from scene to scene, he doesn’t settle anywhere long enough to write with an insider’s perspective. Hernandez covers a lot of ground in his study of the city, maybe too much. As Hernandez wanders the labyrinths of the city, he also investigates his own uncertain identity as the American-born child of Mexican parents. His explorations take him from fashion runways and cocaine after-parties, the street brawls of punk and emo kids, to the teeming festival of Mexico’s national icon, the Virgin of Guadalupe. Five years later, he returned there as a journalist and immersed himself in the bewildering subcultures of the western hemisphere’s largest city. ![]() Berkeley, Hernandez headed to Mexico City to trace his cultural roots. ![]()
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