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Magic in the Land of Eternal Spring
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $30.00
ISBN13: 9780063381704
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Apr 20 2027
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.00
Language: English
From the award-winning author Jared Lemus comes a novel where myth and danger collide in an isolated Guatemalan town
Huecotenango is a small town in a remote corner of Guatemala, where residents--outcasts, wanderers, and people running from the past--have gathered as if drawn by some unspoken calling. Behind Huecotenango's daily rhythms, something has been silently approaching for fifteen years, and its inhabitants sense that their lives are about to change forever.
A crash on the outskirts brings two brothers into Huecotenango. The townspeople offer to help without knowing who the brothers are or what danger they might bring. Leo and Santiago see Huecotenango as a place to disappear and continue their illicit work, but their presence soon unsettles the community. Rumors spread and loyalties are tested as the town's humble existence comes under threat. Extraordinary residents come into focus--a woman who can shapeshift into a jaguar, a healer who absorbs the ailments of others, a young woman with a debt to the god of the underworld--and their pasts, powers, and choices gradually converge with the brothers' story in ways both dangerous and profound.
Jared Lemus has written a suspenseful, morally complex debut novel about survival, devotion, greed, and the inexorable pull of the past. In Magic in the Land of Eternal Spring, ordinary lives are tested by extraordinary forces, and the consequences of small decisions ripple fatally outward.
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