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Perpetual West by Mesha Maren (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill

ISBN-101643753401

ISBN-139781643753409

eBay Product ID (ePID)21057274674

Product Key Features

Book TitlePerpetual West

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCultural Heritage, Literary, Lgbt / General

Publication Year2023

GenreFiction

AuthorMesha Maren

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight11.5 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813.6

Synopsis"Stunning . . . A forceful addition to the literature of the U.S.-Mexican border and its ongoing history of tragedy and joy." --Jennifer Clement, The New York Times Book Review "Suspenseful, seductive . . . A thrill ride from cover to cover." -- Oprah Daily , "The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2022" The riveting new novel by the acclaimed author of Sugar Run , Perpetual West is a brilliant and evocative story of borders--between countries, between lovers, and between facets of the self. 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., Mesha Maren's brilliant second novel follows the story of one couple, a Mexican American man in search of his past and an American woman seeking a future. As Alex and Elana try to make their home among the academics and young leftists in El Paso and Juárez, they are pulled from each other by an affair with a lucha libre fighter, their struggles to define themselves, and the loud cry of home.