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The Lucky Ones

✍ Scribed by Pachico, Julianne

Book ID: 109936876
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Year: 2017
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 802 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780399588655

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✦ Synopsis

Set during the peak of Colombia's drug-fueled conflict, and in New York City, this captivating, kaleidoscopic debut novel centers on a group of high school girls and the people whose lives touch theirs --including their parents, teachers, housekeepers, and the warlords and guerrilla fighters who surround them.

While her parents are away for a holiday weekend in the mountains around Cali, a teenager finds herself home alone for the first time, with the household help mysteriously gone, no phone connection, and news of an insurgency on the radio--and then she hears a knock at the door. The girl's teacher recites Shakespeare in the jungle to a class of sticks, leaves, and stones, while his captors watch his every move. Another classmate, having escaped Columbia for the clubs of New York, is unable to forget the life she left behind without the help of the little bags of powder she carries with her. Taking place over two decades, The Lucky Ones presents...

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