Arcade Publishing
July 2016
On Sale: July 5, 2016
280 pages ISBN: 1628725982 EAN: 9781628725988 Kindle: B01GBUWIIE Trade Size / e-Book Add to Wish List
Like a Coen brothers noir south of the border, ParaΓso is a genre-bending story about love, sibling relationships, and the dark side of paradise.
Peter and Wendyβtheir mother chose the namesβfelt as close as twins, despite their difference in age. As teens, they fled their wealthy Philadelphia home in the family station wagon and headed for Mexico, only to be discovered sleeping in the car on the banks of the Mississippi, in Huck Finn country. Now, many years later, estranged by an apparent betrayal as profound as their family's dysfunction, the two live separate lives, Peter as an editor in New York, Wendy as an edgy sports photographer with a taste for risk. With a new book out and an invitation to Los Cabos, she drives the Mercedes inherited from their father to Baja California, finally completing the trip begun twenty years earlier.
But when the engine fails near a small town named ParaΓsoβParadiseβshe lingers, exploring its underside in an affair with a dangerous man and, all too suddenly, becoming witness to a vicious crime. Meanwhile, in New York, Peter can't help but think of Wendy. When, from his apartment in lower Manhattan, he watches the Twin Towers fall on a beautiful September day, he knows it's time to leave his comfortable life, go find Wendy, and make peace with his long-lost sister. A noirish tale reminiscent of David Lynch and the Coen brothers, ParaΓso traces the journey from a mother's dark secret to a place where love, and even perfect love, is possible.
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