El código de las cigarras

Cuando la locura que viene con el calor del verano en L.A. llega a tu casa huesos, amistades deshilachadas que hace que incluso pensar en una tarea. Tres amigos intentan a la locura del lago Tahoe, o tal vez.a una montaña sin el peso de un nombre.

From the author of The Good Earth, an "Oprah's Book Club Selection." On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife, and thus arranges for a young country girl to come take her place in bed. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, which changes the life of all that surround her. On the fringes of WWII the family is at crossroads, facing betrayal, communism and Western thought, and underlying all, the quest for...

There were once three boys: Gabriel, Scott and Milo. Scott was just outed as gay in a very conservative and toxic envirnoment that wanted nothing to do with him, Milo was trying to live in the slums while dealing with addiction and trying to live day by day with his jerk father. But Gabriel, or Gabe, he was actually in a good place in life, even if his older brother and guardian just discovered he was an Adult Baby (just to be totally supportive and even engaging). One night, Fate has them meet at a park where they bond and find a connection between their different worlds, and as Scott's and...

“Lo que desconcierta en Ana María es esa mezcla que pocas veces se da en un escritor, y que yo definiría como la máxima potencia de la palabra con el empleo más estrictamente ceñido de ella; y, al mismo tiempo, la más honda penetración en la soledad humana con eso que no hay más remedio que calificar de maestría; maestría de un oficio sin el cual no hay escritor de cuentos o de novelas. Y es que Ana María sabe narrar. (…) Síntesis: seguridad para dar con dos trazos un rasgo de carácter o de atmosfera. Sentido de la sorpresa y de la justa tensión. Ternura que brota...