02242cam a2200361 i 4500 1164577890 TxAuBib 20170504120000.0 160930s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016033951 9780399588655 hardcover 0399588655 hardcover (OCoLC)951948358 DLC eng rda DLC BTCTA BDX YDXCP OCLCO SINLB OCLCO YDX TxAuBib rda Pachico, Julianne, author. The lucky ones : a novel / Julianne Pachico. First edition. New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2017. ©2017. 254 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Taking place between 1993 and 2018 in Colombia and New York City, The Lucky Ones is a prismatic tale of a group of characters whose lives intersect in often unexpected ways and whose stories, taken together, provide a lens on the intensity of life in Colombia during the violent years of guerrilla insurgencies and corruption. A teenager hides alone in her family's mansion until she hears a knock at the door...her teacher is kidnapped by guerrillas and teaches Shakespeare in the jungle to a class of sticks, leaves, and stones...another classmate, now a young woman in New York, straddles past and present, unable to live in either without the help of the little bags of powder she carries with her. Showcasing a brilliant new literary voice, The Lucky Ones is both steeped in realism and has a hallucinatory feel--whether from the heat of the jungle, the drugs, or the surreal quality of a world in which the super wealthy have pet lions, people you love can disappear in an instant, and at any moment there might be a knock at your door"-- Provided by publisher. 20170504. Colombians Fiction. Civil war Psychological aspects Fiction. Guerrilla warfare Psychological aspects Fiction. Colombia Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Psychological fiction. TXKIP