After an accident or the misfortune, as his cancerridden fathers caretaker, Celeste, calls it Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his drivers license and feeling impotent as he nears thirtyfive, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the City of Eternal Spring is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad forms of violence bred by drug trafficking. At first, Eduardo seems unable to connect. He movingly reads the words of Dostoyevsky, Henry James, Daphne du Maurier, and more, but doesnt truly understand them. His eccentric listeners including two brothers, one mute, who moves his lips while the other acts as ventriloquist deaf parents raising children they dont know are hearing and a beautiful, wheelchairbound mezzo soprano sense his detachment. Then Eduardo comes across a poem his father had copied by the Mexican poet Isabel Fraire, and it affects him as no literature has before. Through these fascinating characters, like the practical, quickwitted Celeste, who intuitively grasps poetry even though she never learned to read, Fabio Morabito shows how art can help us rediscover meaning in a corrupt, unequal society.

Binding: Paperback;240 pages; Publisher: Other Press LLC; Classification: FA; Weight: 378 g; Dimensions: 134 x 202 x 18

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