Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighboran attractive married woman and motherwhile Polo dreams about quitting his awful job as the gated communitys gardener and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Faced with the impossibility of getting what they think they deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme.
Written in a thrilling torrent of prose by one of our most exciting new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican societyfractured by issues of race, class, and violenceand how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.
