{"product_id":"la-perdida-jessica-abel-9780375714719","title":"La Perdida","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Harvey and Lulu award-winning creator of \u003ci\u003eArtbabe\u003c\/i\u003e comes a riveting story of a young woman's misadventures in Mexico City. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarla, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJessica 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, \u003ci\u003eLa Perdida--\u003c\/i\u003eat once grounded in the particulars of life in Mexico and resonantly universal--is a story about finding oneself by getting lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Abel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375714715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375714719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pantheon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 6.60w x 0.90d","brand":"Jessica Abel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048323412223,"sku":"9780375714719","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34a76ab4-6369-43bd-b359-7618b54181a2.jpg?v=1684995151","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/la-perdida-jessica-abel-9780375714719","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}