Publisher's Synopsis
The open pit: a story about morococha and extractivism in the américas explores the role of extraction under the current capitalist accumulation model, through the specific story of the town of Morococha, located in the central Peruvian Andes, and the ways in which extraction permeates most aspects of human activity. An assemblage of collective enunciations woven through a letter to the author's seven-year-old son, the book connects the world of mining and extraction to everyday life, personal histories of growing up in Lima, Peru, and living in California.
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Latinx Studies.
