The Virgin's Guide to Mexico - Couverture rigide

Martin, Eric B.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1596922109 ISBN 13 : 9781596922105

Editeur : Macadam Cage Pub, 2007

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Extrait

Backlit, their faces dark, five men stand spaced apart like gunslingers, their long distorted shadows thrown by streetlight to her feet. She stands up straight and clasps both hands in front of her, hoping her voice holds.

Gracias.

No one hears her. No one cares. They’ve reached the perimeter where her spilled luggage begins, picking items up like carrots, shaking them triumphant in the air. A man with clipped hair and dark blue jeans leans down to grab her sweatshirt and instead tips over, falling heavily on his side. He rolls onto his back snorting like a happy hog and stretches out his arms and lies there peacefully contemplating sky. His friends roar. On a scale of one to ten, she’s about to shit her pants.

You need to take care of your things, my love, says a guy in a yellow cap. He holds out one big fist and opens it. The thick fingers curl back, and a pair of Crayola red panties bloom in his palm like an exotic flower. He waits for her but she doesn’t move.

You got the wrong girl, she whispers.

Your pretty things, Yellow says. Splays his fingers through the elastics, a childhood cat’s cradle, keeping his eyes on her all the while. So little for a big girl like you. They both stare at the red underwear as if it’s a crystal ball. You don’t want to lose them. Why don’t we make a trade?

Please, she says. Please don’t.

A fair trade. Give me. Yellow stares at her belt. He has clear ideas where this is headed but then his buddy comes to life, reaching out one doughboy arm and plucking the panties gently from his friend, grinning like electroshock. The big man brings the red panties to his nose and presses them against his face, inhaling deeply. He holds the panties out in front of him and lets out a big hum before he stretches out the waistband and snaps them on his head like a shower cap. No one makes a noise, no one, not a dog on the block or a star in the sky, not until he yanks them down over his face like a wrestling mask, his eyes bugging from the leg holes, and that’s it, that’s the last straw, all of them are laughing and staggering like the drunks they are.

She runs.

She runs.

Her undergarments dance and sing as she somehow hits the main street with its lanes of traffic, raises her hand to stop a cab or swear in faith and make all of them, all of Mexico, disappear.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A novel about crossing the border in the opposite direction: from wealthy, suburban Texas into the wild heart of Mexico.

Alma Price is seventeen – she’s smart, she’s angry, and she’s going to Mexico. Her grandfather lives there, or so she thinks, although it’s hard to know what’s true with a lying mother who raised her amongst the blond brigade of their rich Texas neighborhood. Sick of suburbia, Alma hops a bus, crosses the border, gets a disguise, and winds through the thugs and witches and whores, ultimately disappearing in the heart of Mexico City.

Her parents, Hermelinda and Truitt, are right behind her, swerving their big SUV around hallucinogenic cacti and through herds of wild pigs, trying to save their daughter and maybe even their marriage. But in her effort to bring her daughter home to Texas, Hermelinda finds that Mexico is slowly drawing her back in, reminding her of who she is and where she’s from, and just maybe leading her toward a reconciliation with both her past and her estranged daughter.

Confident, vicious, funny, and filled with the wild leaps of imagination, The Virgin’s Guide to Mexico unleashes the full arsenal of an explosive, daring writer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macadam Cage Pub
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1596922109
• ISBN 13: 9781596922105
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible