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,
Paraíso is a genre-bending story about love, sibling
relationships, and the dark side of paradise.
Peter and Wendy—their mother chose the names—felt 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
Paraíso—Paradise—she 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, Paraíso traces the journey
from a mother's dark secret to a place where love, and even
perfect love, is possible.
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