A Handbook to Luck
- ISBN-10
- 0307276805
- ISBN-13
- 9780307276803
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 259
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Cristina García
Description
Follows three young people--Cuban-born Enrique, living in California with his flamboyant magician father; Marta, growing up in the violent slums of San Salvador; and Leila, enjoying an upper-middle-class youth in Tehran--over the course of twenty years as they are transformed by sacrifice, love, violence, and loss as their lives intertwine. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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