Paradais

Fernanda Melchor

Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
3.75 · 16 ratings · 128 pages · Published: 08 Apr 2021
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor
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 (and general doormat) within the gated community, and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each faced with 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 the most thrilling and critically-acclaimed contemporary writers, Paradiais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society—with its racist, classist, hyper-violent tendancies—and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.
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