Book of Embraces

“The factual skeleton of the author's life is given flesh and blood in his strangely beautiful book, in which poetry, fiction, autobiography, history, fantasy and political commentary mingle and reinforce each other in unexpected ways."
--The New York Times Book Review

“This literary scrapbook, mixing memoir, documentary, essay, and prose poem, defies clear-cut genre classification. Journalist/writer Galeano, who claims he writes for the downtrodden, infuses the people and subjects dear to him with his socialist viewpoint and ironic poignancy, typified by such pieces as "Christmas Eve" and "Paradoxes." The series of vignettes lacks the thematic unity that pervades the historical reinterpretation of his trilogy Memory of Fire, since this mixture of politics, art, and literature not only covers a more disparate and heterogeneous content but also obviates chronological progression. An uneven collage that falls short of emulating the jolting vision of his earlier work.”
--Library Journal