Description
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, hyper violent tendencies–and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.
Author: Fernanda Melchor
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 4/4/2023
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32 lbs
Size: 7.97″ H x 5.47″ L x 0.32″ W
ISBN: 9780811235051
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.