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Maren, Mesha.
Subjects
Group identity -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
Homosexuality -- Fiction.
Lucha libre -- Fiction.
Marriage -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
El Paso (Tex.) -- Fiction.
Mexico -- Fiction.
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Maren, Mesha.
Group identity -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
Homosexuality -- Fiction.
Lucha libre -- Fiction.
Marriage -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
El Paso (Tex.) -- Fiction.
Mexico -- Fiction.
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Perpetual West : a novel / by Mesha Maren.
by
Maren, Mesha.
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.
Call #:
FICTION
MAR
Subjects
Group identity
--
Fiction
.
Identity (Psychology)
--
Fiction
.
Mexican Americans
--
Fiction
.
Homosexuality
--
Fiction
.
Lucha
libre
--
Fiction
.
Marriage
--
Fiction
.
Missing persons
--
Fiction
.
Kidnapping
--
Fiction
.
El Paso (Tex.)
--
Fiction
.
Mexico
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781643750941 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
374 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"When Alex and Elana move from smalltown Virginia to El Paso, they are just a young married couple, intent on a new beginning. Mexican by birth but adopted by white American Pentecostal parents, Alex is hungry to learn about the place where he was born. He spends every free moment across the border in Juárez
--
perfecting his Spanish, hanging with a collective of young activists, and studying
lucha
libre
(Mexican wrestling) for his graduate work in sociology. Meanwhile Elana, busy fighting her own demons, feels disillusioned by academia and has stopped going to class. And though they are best friends, Elana has no idea that Alex has fallen in love with Mateo, a
lucha
libre
fighter. When Alex goes missing and Elana can’t determine whether he left of his own accord or was kidnapped, it’s clear that neither of them has been honest about who they are. Spanning their journey from Virginia to Texas to Mexico, Mesha Maren’s thrilling follow-up to Sugar Run takes us from missionaries to wrestling matches to a luxurious cartel compound, and deep into the psychic choices that shape our identities. A sweeping novel that tells us as much about our perceptions of the United States and Mexico as it does about our own natures and desires, Perpetual West is a fiercely intelligent and engaging look at the false divide between high and low culture, and a suspenseful story of how harrowing events can bring our true selves to the surface."--Publisher.
Genre:
Domestic
fiction
.
Literary
fiction
.
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1
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