On the Day of the Dead, the Solona Music Hall is jumping. That's
where Altagracia Quintero meets John Burns, just two weeks too
late.
Altagracia - her friends call her Grace - has a tattoo of Nuestra
Senora de Altagracia on her shoulder, she's got a Ford Motor
Company tattoo running down her leg, and she has grease worked so
deep into her hands that it'll never wash out. Grace works at
Sanchez Motorworks, customizing hot rods. Finding the line in a
classic car is her calling.
Now Grace has to find the line in her own life. A few blocks around
the Alverson Arms is all her world -- from the little grocery store
where she buys beans, tamales, and cigarettes ("cigarettes can kill
you," they tell her, but she smokes them anyway) to the record
shop, to the library where Henry, a black man confined to a
wheelchair, researches the mystery of life in death - but she's got
unfinished business keeping her close to home.
Grace loves John, and John loves her, and that would be wonderful,
except that John, like Grace, has unfinished business - he's
haunted by the childhood death of his younger brother. He's never
stopped feeling responsible. Like Grace in her way, John is an
artist, and before their relationship can find its resolution, the
two of them will have to teach each other about life and love,
about hot rods and Elvis Presley, and about why it's necessary to
let some things go.
General
Imprint: |
Tor Books/ Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2010 |
First published: |
March 2010 |
Authors: |
Charles De Lint
|
Dimensions: |
208 x 142 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
269 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7653-1757-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Fantasy
|
LSN: |
0-7653-1757-5 |
Barcode: |
9780765317575 |
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