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THE CAREGIVER
In emotionally rich storytelling this novel shows how much (or how little) we owe our families, and how life can be lived in the margins of chance.
Set in 1970s and 1980s military dictatorship Brazil, and 1990s Los Angeles.
Mara is growing up in Rio de Janeiro. Her mother Ana is her only family and her entire life. They take turns being one another's keeper. Admirably brave and recklessly impulsive, Ana seems larger than life to Mara when she navigates Rio's underbelly, hustling to hold their lives together. The imbalance of power means that one dangerous decision by Ana pushes her daughter into the corruption-riddled sphere of a powerful police chief and his family.
Eventually, the shockwaves of that single choice send Mara fleeing her mother's memory to Los Angeles. There, she becomes a caregiver of another sort, sifting through her new life for hints of the past, and finally learning that not everything is what it seems.
Told with vivid imagery and subtle poignancy, The Caregiver is a moving and profound story that asks us to investigate who we areas children and parents, immigrants and citizens, and ultimately, humans looking for vital connectivity.
Samuel Park was an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. He graduated from Stanford University and the University of Southern California, where he earned his doctorate. He is the author of the novella Shakespeare's Sonnets and the writer-director of a short film of the same name, which was an official selection of numerous domestic and international film festivals. He is also the author of the novels This Burns My Heart and The Caregiver. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times. Born in Brazil and raised in Los Angeles, he split his time between Chicago and Los Angeles. In April 2017, Samuel Park died of stomach cancer at the age of 41 shortly after finishing The Caregiver.
Mara is growing up in Rio de Janeiro. Her mother Ana is her only family and her entire life. They take turns being one another's keeper. Admirably brave and recklessly impulsive, Ana seems larger than life to Mara when she navigates Rio's underbelly, hustling to hold their lives together. The imbalance of power means that one dangerous decision by Ana pushes her daughter into the corruption-riddled sphere of a powerful police chief and his family.
Eventually, the shockwaves of that single choice send Mara fleeing her mother's memory to Los Angeles. There, she becomes a caregiver of another sort, sifting through her new life for hints of the past, and finally learning that not everything is what it seems.
Told with vivid imagery and subtle poignancy, The Caregiver is a moving and profound story that asks us to investigate who we areas children and parents, immigrants and citizens, and ultimately, humans looking for vital connectivity.
Samuel Park was an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. He graduated from Stanford University and the University of Southern California, where he earned his doctorate. He is the author of the novella Shakespeare's Sonnets and the writer-director of a short film of the same name, which was an official selection of numerous domestic and international film festivals. He is also the author of the novels This Burns My Heart and The Caregiver. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times. Born in Brazil and raised in Los Angeles, he split his time between Chicago and Los Angeles. In April 2017, Samuel Park died of stomach cancer at the age of 41 shortly after finishing The Caregiver.
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Published 2018-09-25 by Simon & Schuster |