Blending literary analysis and memoir, Something More Splendid Than Two is at once an excavation of intergenerational wounds, a dance number, a poem, and a fraught love letter from son to father that disrupts the dominant narratives surrounding the life and myth of Joaqu?n Murrieta. In the Mexican American imaginary, the legend of Joaqu?n Murrieta has been recast to explain the wounding of Mexican American men after the 1848 border formation...