Autobiografía del algodón

To inquire about one's origin is to open the door to many questions, to silences and unexpected answers that sometimes turn into a setback of memory. In Cotton Autobiography, Cristina Rivera Garza follows with curiosity and wonder the footsteps of those men and women who inhabit her family past, workers and peasants who worked the land that now forms the border between Tamaulipas and Texas, a region that reached a high level economic, social and cultural thanks to the cotton planting system. That is why this novel is, in addition to an intimate narration, a reunion with the territory. Or a disagreement, due to the migration, deportation, expulsion and repatriation of those cotton farmers who, after the failure of the system, left their space free, a place that used to be a symbol of progress and is now occupied by the so-called "war on drugs."