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Search Party
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ISBN13: 9781955969406
Publisher: Eliud Martinez Prize
Published: Jun 28 2025
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
Reminiscent of Ruben Degollado's The Family Izquierdo and most certainly a nod to Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, this novel told in alternating perspectives is a stellar debut.
This book is so sad and I love it. In Search Party, we meet a family who is holding on to each other by a thread but mostly by blood. A family who continues to get pulled back into a chaotic and painful orbit around their mother, a woman who never wanted a family and is always leaving them. This book asks the question, What happens when women don't want a family but are forced to have one? The answer, if it offers any, is uncomfortable and multilayered. -Isabel Quintero, Eliud MartÃnez Prize judge and author of Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
About Search PartyMeet the motley cast of family members: Vinita, the restless mother who has spent her life abandoning her family to pursue her dream of being in the movies; Luis, the son who can't hold down a job but can talk to dead people; his sister Ivonne who-after five marriages to rich men-has nothing to show for it but money and a son who can't stand her; their sister Olivia, the writer struggling to piece together the family's history, never sure if she's writing a memoir or not; as well as an extended family dealing with their own inadequacies and disappointments. Search Party emerges as a vibrant portrait of a Puerto Rican family that renders the intricate workings of the heart.
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