Book
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- WASHINGTON SQUARE: Adult Stacks
Paradais
Call Number
- FICTION MELC (WSQ)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : New Directions Publishing, 2022.
Physical Description
112 pages ; 21 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
"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"--
Notes
"Copyright © 2021 Fernanda Melchor. English translation copyright © 2022 Sophie Hughes" -- verso.