P. Kuper, Oaxaca Diary

I couldn't be bothered to finish this one. Based on his past and politics, I want to like Peter Kuper. And this book seemed like a winner: a lefty artist vacations in Oaxaca just as a popular uprising erupts. I imagined the result as something akin to Insurgent Mexico or Ten Days That Shook the World. What I got was Kuper reflecting on fatherhood, entomology, the natural beauty of touristy Oaxaca, and occasionally reporting on the events in the city as something a little beyond his grasp, not that he seemed too invested in getting a grip on them anyway.