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Fruit of the Drunken Tree

May 22, 2019

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Petrona used to live on a farm in Colombia, with her nine brothers and her sister. Then the paramilitary showed up, burned down their house and their fields, and took her father and her three oldest ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, debut, South America

The Lucky Ones: A Novel

March 20, 2017

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  Covering a span from the early 1990s to present day, The Lucky Ones is a novel about Colombia that is as densely dark as that country’s rainforests. Like those forests the novel is home to a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, debut, literary, Random House, social issues, South America

Sergio Y.

June 3, 2016

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  Armando is a seventy-year-old highly esteemed psychiatrist in São Paulo and the narrator of Sergio Y.  He is writing because of a patient he had many years ago—a seventeen-year-old boy who ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Europa Editions, South America, transgender

Cartwheel

October 7, 2013

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Maybe that was the problem with this family—they were all in direct competition with one another to see who could bend over backward the farthest, who could suffer the most. Jennifer Dubois’ new ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, Random House, South America, suspense

The Rhythm of Memory

December 3, 2012

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Octavio met his beloved wife, Salomé, when she was 17, attending a convent school. He wooed her relentlessly despite her family’s objections to his low status and lack of any real means of supporting ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged: Berkley, book clubs, family, historical fiction, marriage, political intrigue, South America

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