Tras la muerte de sus padres en un accidente automovilIstico, el joven AndrEs Segovia y sus hermanos se ven obligados a mudarse a MExico con el resto de la familia. Esta decisiOn, a pesar de haber sido tomada con la mejor de las intenciones, es un error que trastornarA para siempre la vida de AndrEs. DespuEs de varios aNos de vivir en MExico luchando contra el estigma de ser un hispano nacido en Estados Unidos y sintiEndose siempre fuera de lugar, AndrEs decide regresar a los Estados Unidos. Las autoridades lo detienen un dIa y lo ponen bajo la tutela de una terapeuta llamada Grace Delgado, una viuda que vive en El Paso. Su relaciOn se convierte pronto en una gran amistad, y justo cuando comienzan a florecer y a disfrutar de su vida juntos, se descubren secretos inconcebibles acerca de la muerte de los padres de AndrEs . . . secretos que bien pueden destruir la posibilidad que tienen de ser felices.
"Tras la muerte de sus padres en un accidente automovilIstico, el joven AndrEs Segovia y sus hermanos se ven obligados a mudarse a MExico con el resto de la familia. Esta decisiOn, a pesar de haber sido tomada con la mejor de las intenciones, es un error que trastornarA para siempre la vida de AndrEs. DespuEs de varios aNos de vivir en MExico luchando contra el estigma de ser un hispano nacido en Estados Unidos y sintiEndose siempre fuera de lugar, AndrEs decide regresar a los Estados Unidos. Las autoridades lo detienen un dIa y lo ponen bajo la tutela de una terapeuta llamada Grace Delgado, una viuda que vive en El Paso. Su relaciOn se convierte pronto en una gran amistad, y justo cuando comienzan a florecer y a disfrutar de su vida juntos, se descubren secretos inconcebibles acerca de la muerte de los padres de AndrEs . . . secretos que bien pueden destruir la posibilidad que tienen de ser felices."@en
"Andrés Segovia struggles to make sense of his life and his quest for peace leads him to Grace Delgado, a therapist who agrees to treat Andres after a fit of rage lands him in jail."
"When Andres Segovia and his three siblings lose their parents in an auto accident, the oldest brother sneaks them away from their El Paso foster family to Juarez to raise them himself. But poverty leads to drugs, prostitution, and sexual abuse, and the family becomes unglued. Andres finally makes his way back to El Paso, where he meets Grace Delgado, a social worker to whom he goes for court-mandated counseling after his first arrest. Grace is a widow and cancer patient, and her empathy for Andres leads her to examine her shaky relationship with her own son, as well as her inability to relate to his wife."
"From the Publisher: From award-winning poet Benjamin Alire Saenz comes In Perfect Light, a haunting novel depicting the cruelties of cultural displacement and the resilience of those who are left in its aftermath. In Perfect Light is the story of two strong-willed people who are forever altered by a single tragedy. After Andes Segovia's parents are killed in a car accident when he is still a young boy, his older brother decides to steal the family away to Juarez, Mexico. That decision, made with the best intentions, sets into motion the unraveling of an American family. Years later, his family destroyed, Andes is left to make sense of the chaos-but he is ill-equipped to make sense of his life. He begins a dark journey toward self-destruction, his talent and brilliance brought down by the weight of a burden too frightening and maddening to bear alone. The manifestation of this frustration is a singular rage that finds an outlet in a dark and seedy El Paso bar-leading him improbably to Grace Delgado. Recently confronted with her own sense of isolation and mortality, Grace is an unlikely angel, a therapist who agrees to treat Andes after he is arrested in the United States. The two are suspicious of each other, yet they slowly arrive at a tentative working relationship that allows each of them to examine his and her own fragile and damaged past. Andes begins to confront what lies behind his own violence, and Grace begins to understand how she has contributed to her own self-exile and isolation. What begins as an intriguing favor to a friend becomes Grace's lifeline-even as secrets surrounding the death of Andes' parents threaten to strain the connection irreparably. With the urgent, unflinching vision of a true storyteller and the precise, arresting language of a poet, Saenz's In Perfect Light bears witness to the cruelty of circumstance and, more than offering escape, the novel offers the possibility of salvation."
"In Perfect Light is the story of two strong-willed people who are forever altered by a single tragedy. After Andes Segovia's parents are killed in a car accident when he is still a young boy, his older brother decides to steal the family away to Juarez, Mexico. That decision, made with the best intentions, sets into motion the unraveling of an American family."
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