Paraíso by Gordon Chaplin
Paraíso by Gordon Chaplin
Thanks to Meriah Murphy of Wunderkind PR, I am giving away one print copy of Paraíso by Gordon Chaplin.
Description of Paraíso by Gordon Chaplin
Like a Coen brothers noir south of the border, Paraíso is a genre-bending story about love, sibling relationships, and the dark side of paradise.
Peter and Wendy—their mother chose the names—felt as close as twins, despite their difference in age. As teens, they fled their wealthy Philadelphia home in the family station wagon and headed for Mexico, only to be discovered sleeping in the car on the banks of the Mississippi, in Huck Finn country. Now, many years later, estranged by an apparent betrayal as profound as their family’s dysfunction, the two live separate lives, Peter as an editor in New York, Wendy as an edgy sports photographer with a taste for risk. With a new book out and an invitation to Los Cabos, she drives the Mercedes inherited from their father to Baja California, finally completing the trip begun twenty years earlier.
But when the engine fails near a small town named Paraíso—Paradise—she lingers, exploring its underside in an affair with a dangerous man and, all too suddenly, becoming witness to a vicious crime. Meanwhile, in New York, Peter can’t help but think of Wendy. When, from his apartment in lower Manhattan, he watches the Twin Towers fall on a beautiful September day, he knows it’s time to leave his comfortable life, go find Wendy, and make peace with his long-lost sister. A noirish tale reminiscent of David Lynch and the Coen brothers, Paraísotraces the journey from a mother’s dark secret to a place where love, and even perfect love, is possible.
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Praise for Paraíso by Gordon Chaplin
“Paraíso has a story so compelling, so sinuously told and passing strange, you feel like you can’t take your eyes off the road for a second. Wonder and dread pull you forward. You need to see what’s around the next curve.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
“Gordon Chaplin is a brave explorer of the human heart. With his wickedly observant new novel, he leads us through a specifically patrician and rugged USA from east coast to west and then south to Baja, where this strange and mysterious tale pulses with life. Paraíso probes the heart of what it is to be a sibling, what it is to know regret, how to take risks and how to forgive.”—Joanna Hershon, author of The Outside of August and A Dual Inheritance
“A misunderstanding between brother and sister evolves through twenty years of separate adventures, from the fall of the Twin Towers to murderous surfing off the coast of Baja California, from a past of American secrets to a present of Mexican tumult and resolution in the heights—delivering you to its hard won Paradise. This is a ride you won’t want to miss.”—Bruce Berger, author of Almost an Island
About Gordon Chaplin
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Gordon Chaplin is the author of the novel Joyride and several works of nonfiction, including Dark Wind: A Survivor’s Tale of Love and Loss and Full Fathom Five: Ocean Warming and a Father’s Legacy. A former journalist for Newsweek, the Baltimore Sun, and the Washington Post, he has worked on sea conservation with the group Niparaja and since 2003 has been a research associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Gordon’s latest, Paraiso, a genre-bending novel about love, sibling relationships, and the dark side of paradise, is out this July from Arcade Publishing. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York City and Hebron, New York.
To learn more, visit http://www.gordonchaplin.com/
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Giveaway of Paraíso by Gordon Chaplin
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