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Remedios
Fernando Granados is a university professor in financial trouble when a boyhood friend he hasn't seen in thirty years reenters his life. Memo Galindo, now part of a notorious Mexican cartel, soon persuades Fernando to build a meth lab on his country property, just outside the ancient town of Remedios. Fernando's strong-willed wife Sandra and their beloved 18-year-old son Félix each fall under Memo's charismatic spell. The cascading family crisis plays out on a larger stage, from its roots in Guatemala's civil war in the '80s to corruption in the Guatemalan army and American DEA, in a country where even the forces of nature wreak vengeance.Clearman, author of Concepción
Concepción and the Baby Brokers, and Other Stories Out of Guatemala
"In nine interconnected stories set largely in Guatemala, [this book] brings to life characters struggling with familiar emotions and dilemmas in a place unfamiliar to most Americans"--Back cover.
Maya after War
Guatemala’s thirty-six-year civil war culminated in peace accords in 1996, but the postwar transition has been marked by continued violence, including lynchings and the rise of gangs, as well as massive wage-labor exodus to the United States. For the Mam Maya municipality of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, inhabited by a predominantly indigenous peasant population, the aftermath of war and genocide resonates with a long-standing tension between state techniques of governance and ancient community-level power structures that incorporated concepts of kinship, gender, and generation. Showing the ways in which these complex histories are interlinked with wartime and enduring family/class conflicts, ...
The Book of Love and Hate
The author of the Lambda Literary Award winner Kamikaze Lust delivers “a thrilling tale of espionage, family ties, sex, love, and betrayal” (The Advocate). Jennifer Baron is a failed Olympic speed skater now running her family’s foundation and trying to stay sober, when her billionaire father disappears. She travels to Israel in search of him, becoming recklessly entangled in his illegal dealings and with his enigmatic lover, Gila, a former Mossad agent gone bad. Along the way, she is drawn into the shadow worlds of the Promised Land, where career-jockeying government agents, fake Orthodox Jews, queer Palestinians on the run, and other displaced wanderers scramble to find home amid the...
Todos Santos
"Clearman paints a vivid picture of the gritty and graceful sights of Guatemala as well as of the human heart, while touching upon the universal instinct to protect our children from real and imagined threats."Holly MacArthur, managing editor of 'Tin House'
Flowers of the Field
In loving memory, this book is dedicated to my Mother, Ethel Cora (Clearman) Baker, for she loved her family, her kinfolks and every body. She was truly a Flower of the Field.
Art Now/U.S.A.
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The Hidden Chorus
"This book, a rich display of the dynamic and unique voices that comprise NYWC, sings with both possibliity and pain, laughter and loss, triumph and tragedy. It's as complex as New YOrk City itself, and equally as exciting"--from p. [4] of cover.
The Goose's Tale
One winter in a marsh near their home close to the Chesapeake Bay, a brother and sister find a Canada goose decoy that comes to life and shares her sad story with them.
