How is the Guatemala City that Frank visits as a journalist different than the city described to him by his mother in the memoir, Monkey Boy?

Yolanda tells her son stories about the city’s rich cultural heritage, its elegant homes, and its lush tropical gardens. Frank, however, sees a city impacted by years of civil war, the bombed-out buildings, the cratered schools, the pocked streets, the sunken eyes of children, and the burned-out homes. For Frank, the city is defined by that war.