Friends: The Nineties Were Better— Sergio González

The nineties are remembered for their promises: the end of ideological struggles, Mexico's supposed entry into the prestigious club of the first world, the arrival of a global, democratic, and multicultural regime. Sergio González Rodríguez, famous for analyzing the violence unleashed in our country after the shattering of each of these illusions, offers us in this book a frank and very personal memoir of those days that sealed a millennium.

Amigas is a logbook of encounters, a collection of dialogues between the author and the women with whom he shared a table in bars, restaurants, and cafes during the last decade of the 20th century. Dialogues generous with jokes, literary, and cinematographic references.

Thus, the profile of an era is outlined through the contours of the anecdotal and the cultural atmosphere of that time, so that the nineties are reconstructed through their cinema listings, their bookstore shelves, the songs playing on the radio, and the venues of their nightlife. With these chronicles, brimming with erudition and irony, González Rodríguez offers us an intellectual memory of times of which today only the hangover remains.