Where There Was Fire by Arias, John Manuel
Where There Was Fire by Arias, John Manuel

Where There Was Fire

A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from...
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Author: John Manuel Arias
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Where There Was Fire by Arias, John Manuel

Where There Was Fire

CHF 38.33
Where There Was Fire by Arias, John Manuel

Where There Was Fire

CHF 38.33
Author: John Manuel Arias
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias

"An exciting new voice with a prowess for lyricism." ―Publishers Weekly

MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: CrimeReads, Debutiful, Library Journal, Zibby Magazine, The Mary Sue, and more!

Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family is changed forever.

Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are still picking up the pieces. Lyra wants nothing to do with Teresa, but is desperate to find out what happened to her family that fateful night. Teresa, haunted by a missing husband and the bitter ghost of her mother, Amarga, is unable to reconcile the past. What unfolds is a story of a mother and daughter trying to forgive what they do not yet understand, and the mystery at the heart of one family's rupture, steeped in machismo, jealousy, labor uprisings, and the havoc wreaked by banana plantations in Central America.

Brimming with ancestral spirits, omens, and the anthropomorphic forces of nature, John Manuel Arias weaves a brilliant tapestry of love, loss, secrets, and redemption in Where There was Fire.

Author: John Manuel Arias
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 08/29/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.46w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9781250817389


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2023 pg. 2
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2023

About the Author
John Manuel Arias is a queer, Costa Rican American poet and writer. He is a Canto Mundo fellow & alumnus of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. His prose and poetry have been published in PANK, The Rumpus, F(r)iction, Joyland Magazine, and Akashic Books. He has lived in Washington D.C., Brooklyn New York, and in San José, Costa Rica with his grandmother and four ghosts. Where There Was Fire is his debut novel.
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