Sylvia Sellers-Garcia

Biography

Sylvia Sellers-García is currently a PhD candidate in history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her novel, When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep, has just been published in paperback by Riverhead Books.

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ESSAYS / Winter 2009

The Criminal Record

By Sylvia Sellers-Garcia

The police archive sits in a cemetery of confiscated cars at the edge of Zone 6 in Guatemala City. Behind the high wall of the police-headquarters complex, the cars are piled three, four, even five high, their rusted bodies giving the area...