The Inexplicable Logic of my Life
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Memories are riddles that map identity, but do not necessarily define a person’s character. That is a lesson Salvador and his friends, Samantha and Fito, come to learn in a journey of loss, grief, acceptance, and faith during their senior year at El Paso High School.

With his fists closed, Sal discovers he doesn’t understand the layers within him. But where exactly do his layers begin, and where are the answers to the questions piling up?
 
How could he throw punches when his nurturing family taught him differently? Why had life been so unfair to his friends, and so wonderful to him? Why would it offend anyone his adoptive father, the best parent around town, was gay? What would he do without his Mima and the memories he collects with her? When would he be brave enough to read the letter his mother left behind? And why couldn’t he find the words to describe himself for that college admissions essay?

​In The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, the moments leading to these questions haunting Sal introduce the reader to diverse characters and moving dialogues full of poetry, emotion, and social topics.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz is an American poet, novelist and writer of children's books. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2013, the first Latino writer ever to win the award.
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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life is a publication by Clarion Books and can be purchase through Amazon. Click here to purchase. 
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Reviewed by
Priscilla Suárez
​8/12/2017

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