The Invisible Years

"It's impossible to get a single

answer from the past. It's not a key to anything. It's just a place we go to

trick ourselves."

Andrea and Juli?n haven't seen one

another in twenty-one years--not since that tragic, fateful night their senior

year of high school that marked their group of friends forever. A shocking

phone call brings the two together again in Houston, where they begin to unravel

the truth of that year, picking open long scabbed-over wounds from their

upper-class adolescence in 1990s Bolivia and the scandal that ripped them apart.

A writer unhappy in his career and

his marriage, Juli?n has been novelizing the past for his next book, trying to

make meaning out of the events that changed the course of their lives forever. "I'd

thought that writing about that time would free me, relieve the burden of the

invisible years," he writes, "but often it seems that it's done the reverse."

Juxtaposing the na?ve invincibility of adolescence with the grasping uncertainties

of adulthood, Invisible Years deftly weaves a coming-of-age tale that

leaves the reader hanging on every word, even as they know how the cards fall

in the end.