{"product_id":"solitude-is-a-vice-too-orlando-a-rebolledo-9798499317167","title":"Solitude Is a Vice, Too","description":"Panama, 1950's: a little girl is sold to a farm, a young boy flees Colombia on a raft. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePanama, 1980's: a teenager risks her life for food during The Invasion, a sailor smuggles denim into Cuba. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd the product of all their efforts is born in 1991, only to rot inside a locked room in Europe, almost thirty years old, until he meets his \u003ci\u003edaemon.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccording to Socrates, a \u003ci\u003edaemon \u003c\/i\u003eis the internalized divinity in each of us, be it a guardian angel, a friendly ghost, or an aspiration: the \u003ci\u003edaemon\u003c\/i\u003e is the personification of our true self, a representation of what remains when all the lies we've told ourselves are shed and burnt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Stoics called it: \u003ci\u003eLogos.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the \u003ci\u003edaemon \u003c\/i\u003eis also a muse - the one who writes when a writer has nothing to say, everything to fear, and nobody to blame - pushing us, as Seneca wrote, to \"match our inspiration with its language.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThus begins the messy story a \u003ci\u003edaemon\u003c\/i\u003e tells his human host, through his grandmother's life, having access to all his memories and all the ancestry which led him to perpetuate his own, all through the caustic lens of his Stoic \u003ci\u003elogos.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNew York, 2017: a little girl is born. The cycle is broken. She is safe, and she is loved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Orlando A. Rebolledo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798499317167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d","brand":"Orlando A. Rebolledo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48851545358591,"sku":"9798499317167","price":8.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/solitude-is-a-vice-too-orlando-a-rebolledo-9798499317167","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}