{"product_id":"books-la-perdida-by-jessica-abel","title":"La Perdida","description":"From the Harvey and Lulu award-winning creator of \u003ci\u003eArtbabe\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \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\u003e-at once grounded in the particulars of life in Mexico and resonantly universal-is a story about finding oneself by getting lost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670795182353,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780375714719.jpg?v=1781512883","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-la-perdida-by-jessica-abel","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}