Paradais

Now in paperback,'Paradais continues Melchors examination into the metaphysical assault embedded in patriarchy and classism (Jessica Jacolbe, Vulture)Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighboran attractive married woman and motherwhile Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme. Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican societywith its racist, classist, hyper violent tendenciesand how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.