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Standing in the light, they look like salvation itself.
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From award-winning poet Benjamin Alire S�enz comes In Perfect Light, a haunting novel depicting the cruelties of cultural displacement and the resilience of those who are left in its aftermath.
In Perfect Light is the story of two strong-willed people who are forever altered by a single tragedy. After And�s Segovia's parents are killed in a car accident when he is still a young boy, his older brother decides to steal the family away to Ju�rez, Mexico. That decision, made with the best intentions, sets into motion the unraveling of an American family.
Years later, his family destroyed, And�s is left to make sense of the chaos -- but he is ill-equipped to make sense of his life. He begins a dark journey toward self-destruction, his talent and brilliance brought down by the weight of a burden too frightening and maddening to bear alone. The manifestation of this frustration is a singular rage that finds an outlet in a dark and seedy El Paso bar -- leading him improbably to Grace Delgado.
Recently confronted with her own sense of isolation and mortality, Grace is an unlikely angel, a therapist who agrees to treat And�s after he is arrested in the United States. The two are suspicious of each other, yet they slowly arrive at a tentative working relationship that allows each of them to examine his and her own fragile and damaged past. And�s begins to confront what lies behind his own violence, and Grace begins to understand how she has contributed to her own self-exile and isolation. What begins as an intriguing favor to a friend becomes Grace's lifeline -- even as secrets surrounding the death of And�s' parents threaten to strain the connection irreparably.
With the urgent, unflinching vision of a true storyteller and the precise, arresting language of a poet, S�enz's In Perfect Light bears witness to the cruelty of circumstance and, more than offering escape, the novel offers the possibility of salvation.
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- Title In Perfect Light A Novel
- Author Benjamin A. Saenz
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 326
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date August 1, 2007
- ISBN 9780060779214
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- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Friendship
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