La Perdida (Pantheon Graphic Library)

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La Perdida (Pantheon Graphic Library)

From the Harvey and Lulu awardâ€“winning creator of Artbabe comes this riveting story of a young womanâ€™s misadventures in Mexico City. Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, heads to Mexico City to â€œfind herself.â€ She crashes with a former fling, Harry, who has been drinking his way through the capital in the great tradition of his heroes, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Harry is goodâ€”humored about Carlaâ€™s reappearance on his doorstepâ€”until he realizes that Carla, who spends her days soaking in the city, exploring Frida Kahloâ€™s house, and learning Spanish, has no intention of leaving.

When Harry and Carlaâ€™s relationship of mutual tolerance reaches its inevitable end, she rejects his world of Anglo expats for her own set of friends: pretty-boy Oscar, who sells pot and dreams of being a DJ, and charismatic Memo, a left-wing, pseudoâ€“intellectual ladiesâ€™ man. Determined to experience the real Mexico, Carla turns a blind eye to her new friendsâ€™ inconsistencies. But then she catches the eye of a drug don, el Gordo, and from that moment on her life gets a lot more complicated, and she is forced to confront the irreparable consequences of her willful innocence.

Jessica Abelâ€™s evocative blackâ€“andâ€“white drawings and creative mix of English and Spanish bring Mexico Cityâ€™s past and present to life, unfurling Carlaâ€™s dark history against the legacies of Burroughs and Kahlo. A story about the youthful desire to live an authentic life and the consequences of trusting easy answers, La Perdidaâ€“at once grounded in the particulars of life in Mexico and resonantly universalâ€“is a story about finding oneself by getting lost.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Pantheon
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780375714719
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2008-05-20
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780375714719

Country	USA
Brand	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780375714719
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2008-05-20
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780375714719

La Perdida (Pantheon Graphic Library)

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