The Past Pursues Us Like Detectives, Debt Collectors, Thieves

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JP has come home to Mexico. His mother needs help getting medical treatment and he’s determined to be a good son. Soon, however, his old childhood friend Everardo is plying him with craft beers at the bar, and JP is throwing his first-ever punch (it was crappy), and what’s supposed to be a dutiful family visit is rapidly spiralling into a madcap whirlwind of murder, pills, and fraud. In his latest fast-paced and funny whodunit, tender and hilarious as ever, Juan Pablo Villalobos lovingly turns his attention to the stories we tell ourselves about home: about what changes, what doesn’t, and what should.

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After many peaceful years abroad, JP has returned home to Mexico to visit family and help care for his elderly mother. Instead, however, he finds himself at a bar, his fist inches from the face of Everardo, his sort-of childhood friend. He lands the blow and runs home. But when Everardo turns up dead the next morning, JP soon finds himself blamed for a murder that he (probably) didn’t commit. What’s going on? Can Lagos really be more full of drugs, extortion, and fraud than when he left? Why is everyone offering him pills? How’s he ever going to pay for his mother’s medical treatment? It wasn’t even that good a punch!

Weaving outright hilarity with wry tenderness, The Past Pursues Us is a fast-paced and funny whodunit that lovingly speaks to the stories we tell ourselves about home: about what changes, what doesn’t, and what should.

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Weight 336 g
Dimensions 19.8 cm
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Paperback

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English

Edition

Paperback original

Dewey

863.7 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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