Chilean Poet
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Nine years after their bewildering breakup, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his high school girlfriend, Carla, now the mother of a six-year-old son, Vicente. Soon the three form a happy sort-of family--a stepfamily, though no such word exists in their language. After a few years, their ambitions pull the lovers in different directions, but traces of Gonzalo remain: Vicente inherits his love of poetry. When, at eighteen, he meets Pru, an American journalist literally and figuratively lost in Santiago, he encourages her to write about Chilean poets--not the famous, dead kind, your Nerudas or Mistrals or Bolaos, but rather the living, everyday poets, who are also a kind of family. By the time Pru's article is published, Gonzalo has returned to Chile. But will he and Vicente find their way back to one another?
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PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, [2022]
Year Published: 2022
Description: 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780593297940
0593297946
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
McDowell, Megan,
SUBJECTS
Poets, Chilean -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Stepfamilies -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.