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Chicken Coop in a High Wind by Leonardo Costa Veras is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Delve into a work shimmering with literary wit, poignant comedy, and emotional depth. Spanning nearly one hundred years and three continents, Chicken Coop in a High Wind recounts the saga of the Breton family, setting off with the patriarch-Ernesto José Breton-forced to leave his hometown in northern Brazil due to a hapless poem published in the school newspaper. Fate propels Ernesto into an accidental life, from his marriage to the levelheaded Maria Lúcia Duarte, to the birth of his three children, the loss of one, the disappearance of another, and lastly the weight of expectation upon the shoulders of the youngest-Nicholas Elias-who hijacks the narrative to present time. This is a story about people telling stories, but remembering things differently. From the front lines of a coup d'état in 1964, to the dangers of gold-prospecting in the Amazon, academic bohemianism in Paris, drunk voodooism in the Caribbean, and finally the pandemical near-present in Los Angeles-where cult gurus, backgammon enthusiasts, the famous, the unfamous, and the infamous are incited to do strange things every time the Santa Ana winds blow from the high desert. Chicken Coop in a High Wind intertwines lau

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Author

Leonardo Costa Veras

Publisher

Palmetto Publishing

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9798822930490

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Contemporary Fiction