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Harper
May 2013
On Sale: April 23, 2013
400 pages
ISBN: 0062105620
EAN: 9780062105622
Kindle: B009NFFZ08
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Fiction Family Life
Neglected by her parents, nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal
has grown up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her
grandparents. Her grandmother Nidia, affectionately known as
Nini, is a force of nature—willful and outspoken,
unconventionally wise with a mystical streak, and fiercely
protective—a woman whose formidable strength helped her
build a new life after emigrating from Chile in 1973. Popo,
Maya's grandfather, is an African American astronomer and
professor—a gentle man whose solid, comforting presence
helps calm the turbulence of Maya's adolescence. When
Popo dies of cancer, Maya goes completely off the rails.
With her girlfriends—a tight circle known as the
Vampires—she turns to drugs, alcohol, and petty crime, a
downward spiral that eventually bottoms out in Las Vegas.
Lost in a dangerous underworld, she is caught in the
crosshairs of warring forces—a gang of assassins, the
police, the FBI, and Interpol. Her one chance for survival
is Nini, who helps her escape to a remote island off the
coast of Chile. Here Maya tries to make sense of the past,
unravels mysterious truths about life and about her family,
and embarks on her greatest adventure: the journey into her
own soul.
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