<![CDATA[La Perdida]]>

false <![CDATA[La Perdida]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178131694m/761719.jpg 761719 5 From the Harvey and Lulu award–winning creator of Artbabe comes this riveting story of a young woman’s misadventures in Mexico City. Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, heads to Mexico City to “find herself.” 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 good—humored about Carla’s reappearance on his doorstep—until he realizes that Carla, who spends her days soaking in the city, exploring Frida Kahlo’s house, and learning Spanish, has no intention of leaving. When Harry and Carla’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, pseudo–intellectual ladies’ man. Determined to experience the real Mexico, Carla turns a blind eye to her new friends’ 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 Abel’s evocative black–and–white drawings and creative mix of English and Spanish bring Mexico City’s past and present to life, unfurling Carla’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 Perdida–at once grounded in the particulars of life in Mexico and resonantly universal–is a story about finding oneself by getting lost. 156428 2004 La Perdida total:575|5:63|4:208|3:203|2:80|1:21| 575 1937 752 120 2 3 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 26 08:31:07 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 08:59:22 -0700 2008
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Carla doesn't spea...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Nov 27 10:51:52 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 11:23:33 -0800 2008
unfortunately, the story lacked the depth and analysis about cert...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 20:34:21 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 20:56:47 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 21:17:28 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 20:47:21 -0800 2007
When the drug lord offers you a sample of cocaine, the wise choice is to LEAVE, not take it! Sigh.

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In any event I enjoyed it. The very beginning starts out w/ the main character, Carla, still in Chicago. She'...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 16:41:12 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 22:10:31 -0800 2008 La Perdida is essential reading for any American who has spent time in or who aspires to travel to Mexico’s infinitely dimensioned and ever-enticing capital city. The artwork alone is riveting enough, but the sights and experiences explored throughout the book intimately echo those that would be f...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Mar 03 09:34:10 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 09:40:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Feb 08 09:19:37 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 09:19:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jan 25 14:52:45 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 01:17:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=761719