false 6457461 1 <p>Twenty-four-year-old Daniella is an architecture student living with her narcissistic artist boyfriend in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Abandoned by her father at an early age, Daniella always falls for the wrong type of man. Her most enduring male relationship so far is with her 30-pound Turkish angora cat. Thankfully, Daniella’s mother is always there to offer a shoulder.</p> <p>Several strange mysteries are threaded through Daniella’s everyday life: her ex-husband, Ismael, has just opened an outlandish hotel for animal lovers that has her distraught; Ismael’s wife, a rich woman Daniella fondly refers to as “Lady Dracula,” has some gruesome ways to keep her skin looking young; Daniella’s mother is founding a revolutionary, feminist society called The Praying Mantises; the island’s national forest is being depleted of hallucinogenic mushrooms; meanwhile, young girls are disappearing and there’s a nut loose dressed as Zorro slashing the rear ends of women who wear miniskirts.</p> >p?Oppressed by all these crazed, eccentric characters, Daniella feels herself falling into an abyss. Then something horrendous happens, making Daniella wake from her stupor and take charge of her life.</p> 6647814 3 3 2009 Sunstruck total:3|5:2|3:1| 3 13 4 2 5 0 false false Tue Jul 21 07:52:32 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 07:52:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 10:53:37 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 20:35:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jul 10 14:26:50 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 12:23:29 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 14:26:50 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu May 14 22:20:40 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 22:20:40 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6457461