Rogers Harold
Rogers Harold - Tropicalia A Novel - Hardcover
Rogers Harold - Tropicalia A Novel - Hardcover
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Description: Old secrets are brought to light when a family matriarch returns to Brazil after years away in this original and highly immersive (Good Morning America) debut that explores the heartbreak and hope of what it means to be from two homes two peoples and two worlds. Daniel Cunha has a lot on his mind. He got dumped by his pregnant girlfriend his grandfather just dropped dead and on the anniversary of the raid that doomed his drug - dealing aunt and uncle his mother makes her unwanted return years after she fled to marry another American fool like his father. Misfortune however is a Cunha family affair and no generation is spared. Not Daniel's grandfather Jo o poor Jo o born to a prostitute and forced to raise his siblings while still a child himself. Not Jo o's wife Marta branded as a bruxa reviled by her mother and dragged from her Ilha paradise by her scheming daughter Maria. And certainly not Maria so envious of her younger sister's beauty and benevolence that she took her vicious revenge and fled to the States abandoning her children: Daniel and Lucia both tainted now by their half - Americanness and their mother's greedy absence. There's poison in the Cunha blood. They are a family cursed condemned to the pain of deprivation betrayal violence and worst of all love. But now Maria has returned to grieve her father and finally make peace with Daniel and Lucia or so she says. As New Year's Eve nears the Cunha family hurtles toward an irrevocable breaking point: a fire a knife and a death on the sands of Copacabana Beach. Amid the cacophony of Rio's tumult rampant poverty political unrest the ever - present threat of violence a fierce chorus of voices rises above the din to ask whether we can ever truly repair the damage we do to those we love in this fiery debut novel (The Washington Post).
Title: Tropicalia A Novel
Author(s): Rogers Harold
Publisher: Atria Books
Barcode: 9781668013878
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/18/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Old secrets are brought to light when a family matriarch returns to Brazil after years away in this original and highly immersive (Good Morning America) debut that explores the heartbreak and hope of what it means to be from two homes two peoples and two worlds. Daniel Cunha has a lot on his mind. He got dumped by his pregnant girlfriend his grandfather just dropped dead and on the anniversary of the raid that doomed his drug - dealing aunt and uncle his mother makes her unwanted return years after she fled to marry another American fool like his father. Misfortune however is a Cunha family affair and no generation is spared. Not Daniel's grandfather Jo o poor Jo o born to a prostitute and forced to raise his siblings while still a child himself. Not Jo o's wife Marta branded as a bruxa reviled by her mother and dragged from her Ilha paradise by her scheming daughter Maria. And certainly not Maria so envious of her younger sister's beauty and benevolence that she took her vicious revenge and fled to the States abandoning her children: Daniel and Lucia both tainted now by their half - Americanness and their mother's greedy absence. There's poison in the Cunha blood. They are a family cursed condemned to the pain of deprivation betrayal violence and worst of all love. But now Maria has returned to grieve her father and finally make peace with Daniel and Lucia or so she says. As New Year's Eve nears the Cunha family hurtles toward an irrevocable breaking point: a fire a knife and a death on the sands of Copacabana Beach. Amid the cacophony of Rio's tumult rampant poverty political unrest the ever - present threat of violence a fierce chorus of voices rises above the din to ask whether we can ever truly repair the damage we do to those we love in this fiery debut novel (The Washington Post).
Title: Tropicalia A Novel
Author(s): Rogers Harold
Publisher: Atria Books
Barcode: 9781668013878
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/18/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
