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020			_a9781250817389
040			_aDLC _cDLC
050			_aPS3601.R49 W47 2023
082			_21 _a813.6
100			_aJohn Manuel Arias
245			_aWhere there was fire _cJohn Manuel Arias
250			_aFirst edition
260			_aNew York _bFlatiron Books _c2023
300			_a270 pages _billustrations, genealogical table _c25 cm
365			_b12.99 _cUSD _d1 _efrom Amazon
500			_aAutographed by author
520			_a"In John Manuel Arias's lush and lyrical debut, a Costa Rican family wrestles with the aftermath of neocolonialism, a deadly secret, and an all-consuming fire. Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family is changed forever. Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are still picking up the pieces. Lyra wants nothing to do with Teresa, but is desperate to find out what happened to her family that fateful night. Teresa, haunted by a missing husband and the bitter ghost of her mother, Amarga, is unable to reconcile the past. What unfolds is a story of a mother and daughter trying to forgive what they do not yet understand, and the mystery at the heart of one family's rupture, steeped in machismo, jealousy, labor uprisings, and the havoc wreaked by banana plantations in Central America. Brimming with ancestral spirits, omens, and the anthropomorphic forces of nature, John Manuel Arias weaves a brilliant tapestry of love, loss, secrets, and redemption. Set in Costa Rica between 1968 and the mid-1990s, Where There Was Fire paints a vivid portrait of the ways in which agribusiness and international exploitation are intertwined with one family's fate"-- Provided by publisher.
650			_2DDC _afamily
650			_2DDC _zCosta Rica
650			_2DDC _aexploitation
650			_2DDC _afamily secrets
650			_2DDC _aDeath of family members
650			_2DDC _aplantations
650			_2DDC _aforegiveness
650			_2DDC _amurder
651			_2DDC _aCosta Rica
655			_2DDC _aNovel _vDomestic fiction
700			_aKelly S. Too _cCover artist
942			_2ddc _cBKTMP
998			_b72 _d72
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