Ramifications

Folding and refolding origami frogs, extracting the symmetrical veins from leaves, retreating to an imaginary world in his closet: Teresa's son filled the void left by her absence with odd rituals after she walked out the door and didn't come back that July afternoon in 1994. Ostensibly, Teresa went to join the Zapatista revolutionaries in the Chiapas jungle, but twenty-three years later, her son is struggling to understand exactly what happened. With neurotic introspection, he reconstructs that eventful summer in his journal, until a startling discovery reshapes his conception of his family's story. Daniel Saldaña París (Among Strange Victims) returns with an emotionally rich novel that wrestles with the double-edged swords of memory and machismo masculinity.