TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melchor,Fernanda
AU  - Hughes,Sophie
TI  - Paradais
SN  - 9780811231329
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - New Directions Publishing
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Neighbors
KW  - Wishes
KW  - Violence
KW  - Equality
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N1  - "Copyright © 2021 Fernanda Melchor. English translation copyright © 2022 Sophie Hughes" -- verso
N2  - "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"--
ER  -