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Chicken Coop in a High Wind
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Leonardo Veras
Published: Dec 22 2023
Pages: 566
Weight: 1.56
Height: 1.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Beyond perfect for fans of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, John Irving, and Barbara Kingsolver - one of those stories you'll wish you had read years ago. - McKenzie Lynn Tozan, Editor-in-Chief, Lit Shark Magazine
Spanning nearly a century and three continents, Chicken Coop in a High Wind recounts the saga of the Breton family. It begins with the patriarch, Ernesto José Breton, forced to flee his hometown in northern Brazil over a hapless poem published in the school newspaper. What follows is the particular chaos that trails people who never quite intended the lives they ended up living.
From the front lines of a 1964 coup d'état, to Amazon gold-prospecting, bohemianism in Paris, voodooism in the Caribbean, and finally near-present pandemic Los Angeles - where the famous, unfamous, and infamous are incited to do strange things every time the Santa Ana winds blow.
This is a story about people telling stories - and remembering them differently. It intertwines laughter with sorrow, grand gestures with the unavoidable comedy of human fallibility. And it dares to ask: How does storytelling shape us? And how do we garble our own histories? Here is a world where history is a flighty tale - told erratically once, retold differently later, and taken as gospel always.
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