Where There Was Fire

✍ Scribed by John Manuel Arias

Publisher: Flatiron Books
Tongue: English
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias "An exciting new voice with a prowess for lyricism." ―Publishers Weekly MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: CrimeReads, Debutiful, Library Journal, Zibby Mag, The Mary Sue, and more! Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family is changed forever. Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are still picking up the pieces. Lyra wants nothing to do with Teresa, but is desperate to find out what happened to her family that fateful night. Teresa, haunted by a missing husband and the bitter ghost of her mother, Amarga, is unable to reconcile the past. What unfolds is a story of a mother and daughter trying to forgive...

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