Paradais
New York : A New Directions Book, 2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 112 pages ; 21 cm
"Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor-an attractive married woman and mother-while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme. Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society-with its racist, classist, hyperviolent tendencies-and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Teenagers -- Fiction.
Families -- Mexico -- Fiction.
Violence -- Mexico -- Fiction.
Mexico -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Teenagers -- Fiction.
Families -- Mexico -- Fiction.
Violence -- Mexico -- Fiction.
Mexico -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780811231329
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Melchor | Main (Downtown) | Display - Second Level, Fiction | Out (Due: 5/13/2024) |