Tarantula - Eduardo Halfon is at once a coming-of-age

is at once a coming-of-age novel

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Emelie has left town to spend a few days in the country

Should she follow him to see what he's up to

A novel of rage

Tarantula - Eduardo Halfon is at once a coming-of-ageEduardo and his brother have been living in the US for three years when their parents send them back to Guatemala for the holidays. It is 1984 and their native country, in the midst of a violent civil war, feels newly alien to them their Spanish faltering, already half forgotten. Their grandfather collects the boys from the airport and drives them into the mountains, depositing them at what theyre told is a Jewish summer camp. At the camp, the