CONTENT NOTIFICATIONS
Crime: General,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Alcohol Abuse,Language: Strong Language,Sexual Content: Mild Sexual Content/Themes,Violence: Mild Violence
The Fruit of the Drunken Tree: A Novel
By Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Edition
By Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Hardcover edition
Publisher Penguin Random House Imprint Doubleday ISBN9780385542722
Awards and Honors CPL Best of the Best - 2018The Fruit of the Drunken Tree: A Novel
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9780385542722J
Colombia, 1990s: During Pablo Escobar's violent heyday, sheltered seven-year-old Chula tries to understand mysterious Petrona, the teenaged live-in maid her mother has hired from the city's guerilla-occupied slums.
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