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Standing in the light, they look like salvation itself.
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From award-winning poet Benjamin Alire Senz 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 Ands 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 Jurez, Mexico. That decision, made with the best intentions, sets into motion the unraveling of an American family.
Years later, his family destroyed, Ands 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 Ands 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. Ands 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 Ands' parents threaten to strain the connection irreparably.
With the urgent, unflinching vision of a true storyteller and the precise, arresting language of a poet, Senz'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
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780060779214
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- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Friendship
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