When Kenny Romero, a promising high school athlete, journeys from New York City to his summer job at the Brunet dairy farm in upstate New York, he makes choices that bring him in direct confrontation with nature and challenge his more primitive instincts for survival. His fateful decision triggers a crisis with harrowing consequences for his already troubled family.
Against the background of his ordeal, each character reveals a part of his or her own struggle. During the course of the summer, as Kenny and his girlfriend, Claudia, deepen their relationship, Kenny's mother, Fran, struggles with an agonizing choice. His father, Tommy Romero, reveals why, years prior, he chose to act as he did after he had been drawn into illegal activities by Kenny's uncle, Jerry Boyle, and both were dismissed from the police force. Jerry, meanwhile, learns the true identity of Gabriel Brunet, owner of the farm. At the core of the tale is the distant secret harbored by Kenny's maternal grandmother, Mary Boyle.
A vivid, gripping tale of action and mystery, Blood Fugues explores the ways in which family ties and secrets spin their way into our present lives, shaping our desires, our fears, and our futures.

Blood Fugues: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Vega Yunque, Edgardo

United States

Rayo

Kenny's mother was Frances Boyle, an Irish girl from the Bronx; his father, Tommy Romero, was a Puerto Rican born in East Harlem. The firstborn and favorite of this Dublin—San Juan union bore his mother's easy-smiling Irish eyes and his father's air of quiet mystery.
His summer begins like others before: leaving the cradle of his Williamsburg home to work on a pastoral upstate farm. But soon he makes choices that bring him into direct conflict with nature and challenge his more primitive instincts for survival, while at home his family grapples with their tangled pasts and the consequences of decades of deceptions.
In sparse and elegant prose, Edgardo Vega Yunqué renders a tight, beautifully constructed novel about two families coming to terms with their stormy pasts and their hopes for the future.

Harper-perennial

Una historia apasionante que explora la manera en que los secretos de la familia se entrelazan en nuestras vidasLa madre de Kenny, Frances Boyle, era una irlandesa del Bronx; su padre, Tommy Romero, era un puertorriqueño nacido en East Harlem. El primogénito de esta unión entre Dublín y San Juan llevaba los sonrientes ojos irlandeses de su madre y el aire de misterio silencioso de su padre.Kenny empieza su verano como todos los anteriores: deja la cuna de su casa en Williamsburg para trabajar en una granja pastoral en el norte del estado de Nueva York. Pero pronto toma decisiones que lo llevan a entrar directamente en conflicto con la naturaleza y retan sus instintos de supervivencia más primitivos, mientras que en casa, su familia lucha con su pasado enredado y las consecuencias que traen décadas de decepciones.Con una prosa escasa y elegante, Edgardo Vega Yunqué rinde una novela precisa y maravillosamente construida sobre dos familias que buscan aceptar su tormentoso pasado y tener esperanza para el futuro.

Fugas de Sangre: Una Novela (Spanish Edition)

Parenting & Relationships

From one of the most powerful voices in contemporary fiction comes a fantastic adventure through the concrete jungle of New York City
Failed in all his career aspirations, recently laid off from Kinko's, and burdened with a frustrating anatomical shortcoming, Omaha Bigelow finds salvation on the streets of New York City's Lower East Side in the form of a Nuyorican homegirl equipped with an array of powers to cure his problems. Their misbegotten romance transforms him from a perpetual loser to an overnight success, but fame comes with a hefty price. Omaha must soon struggle to remain faithful as he becomes entangled with an irresistible WASP law student and a sinister ex-CIA agent who happens to be her father.
Writing with a perfect-pitch ear for the American idiom, and vividly capturing the cultural landscape of post–September 11 New York, Edgardo Vega Yunqué challenges the received wisdom of contemporary life and its politics with vitality, humor, and an abiding affection for pop culture, youth, and American optimism.

Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle: A Novel

This sweeping drama of intimately connected families--black, white, and Latino--boldly conjures up the ever-shifting cultural mosaic that is America. At its heart is Vidamía Farrell, half Puerto Rican, half Irish, who sets out in search of the father she has never known. Her journey takes her from her affluent suburban home to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where her father Billy Farrell now lives with his second family. Once a gifted jazz pianist, Billy lost two fingers in the Vietnam War and has since shut himself off from jazz. As Billy's colorful new family draws her into their fold, so Vidamia determines to draw her father back into the world he left behind.

No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again; A Symphonic Novel

Picador

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Blood Fugues: A Novel

Blood Fugues: A Novel

Fugas de Sangre: Una Novela (Spanish Edition)

Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle: A Novel

No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again; A Symphonic Novel