Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness… Charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. This quote by Mark Twain, from The Innocents Abroad, well sums up “The Guatemala Reader: Extraordinary Lives and Amazing Stories.” Mark D. Walker’s compelling collection of essays shines a light on a country many of us in the Western world know little about. Through these essays, Guatemala emerges as a complex nation shaped by diverse ethnicities and a painful history of exploitation. Yet within these realities a vital and intelligent people […]