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020			_a9781476784960
050	0	0	_aPS3618.U5625 _bA6 2015
082	1		_aLAS FIC RUI _2
100	1		_aRuiz-Camacho, Antonio
245	1	0	_aBarefoot dogs : _bstories _c/ Antonio Ruiz-Camacho.
250			_aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Scribner _c, 2015
300			_a146 pages _c; 22 cm
520			_aAn unforgettable debut of linked stories that follow the members and retinue of a wealthy Mexican family forced into exile after the patriarch is kidnapped. On an unremarkable night, Jose; Victoriano Arteaga - the head of a thriving Mexico City family - vanishes on his way home from work. The Arteagas find few answers; the full truth of what happened to Arteaga is lost to the shadows of Mexico's vast and desperate underworld, a place of rampant violence and kidnappings, and government corruption. But soon packages arrive to the family house, offering horrifying clues. Fear, guilt, and the prospect of financial ruination fracture the once-proud family and scatter them across the globe, yet delicate threads still hold them together: in a swimming pool in Palo Alto, Arteaga's young grandson struggles to make sense of the grief that has hobbled his family; in Mexico City, Arteaga's mistress alternates between rage and heartbreak as she waits, in growing panic, for her lover's return; in Austin, the Arteagas' housekeeper tries to piece together a second life in an alienating and demeaning new land; in Madrid, Arteaga's son takes his ailing dog through the hot and unforgiving streets, in search of his father's ghost. Author Antonio Ruiz-Camacho offers an exquisite and intimate evocation of the loneliness, love, hope, and fear that can bind a family even as unspeakable violence tears it apart.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aShort stories, English
942			_cLAS
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