Library Manager
Manage your library—your way. Keep a running list or organize archived books into little stacks. i.e. Beach Reads, Cozy Covers, True Crime, etc.
Paradais
A Literary Fiction Novel by Fernanda Melchor
Subgenres:
- Psychological Thriller,
- Mexican Fiction,
- Coming-of-Age
This book is for you if you're into...
- Dark class clashes inside luxury Mexican gated communities
- Teen misfits spiraling toward desperate, reckless decisions
- Unfiltered looks at obsession and social violence
Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise.
Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor—an attractive married woman and mother—while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village.
Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme.
Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society—with its racist, classist, hyperviolent tendencies—and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.
Follow This Author
Sign up & we'll email you when a new title is available for pre-order or hits the bookshelf
Hurricane Season
2017
This is Not Miami
2013
Little Stacks of Modern & Literary Fiction
Summer Reading Done Right with Six Books Where Characters Hit the Road
From cruises to road trips these irresistible vacation reads belong on your summer TBR.
Sad Books That Will Make You Cry Your Eyes Out
Six unforgettable tearjerkers guaranteed to bring on the ugly cry.
Get Free & Discounted eBooks
Curated reads, irresistible prices—subscribe now