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Luz at Midnight - by Marisol Cortez (Paperback)

Luz at Midnight - by  Marisol Cortez (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>A genre-hopping narrative, Luz chronicles the ill-timed love between a naive academic and a manic-</p><p>depressive journalist as they uncover corrupt extraction politics in South Texas.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Winner of the 2021 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction by the Texas Institute of Letters</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Deeply embedded in the landscapes of South Texas, <em>Luz at Midnight </em>tells the story of an ill-timed love that unfolds in the time of climate change. Booksmart but naïve, Citlali Sanchez-O'Connor has just been hired to organize a San Antonio campaign against "gleaning," a controversial new mining practice that promises a rapid transition away from fossil fuels. Soon she encounters Joel Champlain, a journalist struggling to hide his manic-depression as he uncovers the scandals that surround gleaning. During a chance trip together to Texas's Gulf Coast, Lali is struck by a love as powerful as the electrical storm that birthed Luz, the unearthly canine trickster who has thrown them together. But Lali-married with a baby, poised to leave town for an academic job, and trained to think everything is explicable-finds she must decide what their connection means, if anything, for a path already set in motion. </p><p><br></p><p>A genre-hopping narrative that layers story with reporting, poetry, scholarship, and teatro, <em>Luz</em> questions the nature of desire and power, asking: What throws us into the path of those we love, and what pulls us apart? What agency powers the universe-and do we have any agency of our own to create a different world? </p><p><br></p>

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