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"After a fourteen-year estrangement, Maria Venegas returns to Mexico from the United States to visit her father, who is living in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. While spending the following summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fences, he begins sharing stories with her, tales of a dramatic life filled with both intense love and brutal violence--from the final conversations he had with his own father, to his extradition from the United States for murder, to his mother's pride after he shot a man for the first time at the age of…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2015Granta · 9781847083470
- Other · English · 2014Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 305 pages · 9780374117313
- Other · English · 2014Granta · 9781847083463
Fathers and daughtersFamily relationshipsCriminalsChildren of criminalsNew York Times reviewedMexican americans, fictionFathers and daughters, fictionFiction, biographical






