Volume 52, Number 3 · February 24, 2005
Don't Cry for Me, Guatemala
By Michael Wood
The Divine Husband
by Francisco Goldman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 465 pp., $24.00
The meaning of the word 'bilocation' seems obvious: being in two places at the same time, like a god or a car rental company. But its usual application, and its central definition in Francisco Goldman's capacious new novel, involves more of a mystery. It still means being in two places at the same time, but in a way that single human beings are not supposed to be able to manage. Like a sixteenth-century nun who is simultaneously asleep in Europe and doing God's work in the Americas:
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