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Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from
the Texas Institute of Letters * A San Francisco Chronicle
Recommended Book of 2015 * Fiction Finalist for the 2015 Writers'
League of Texas Book Awards * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015 *
One of the Texas Observer's "Five Books We Loved in 2015" * One of
PRI's "The World's Five Books You Should Read in 2016" "Profound
and wrenching...A deeply moving chronicle of one family's
collective devastation, full of remarkable wisdom and humor" (The
New York Times Book Review) that follows the members of a wealthy
Mexican family after their patriarch is kidnapped. On an
unremarkable night, Jose Victoriano Arteaga--the head of a thriving
Mexico City family--vanishes on his way home from work. The
Arteagas find few answers; the full truth of what happened to
Arteaga is lost to the shadows of Mexico's vast underworld. But
soon packages arrive to the family house, offering horrifying
clues. Fear, guilt, and the prospect of financial ruin fracture the
once-proud family and scatter them across the globe, yet delicate
threads still hold them together: in a swimming pool in Palo Alto,
Arteaga's grandson struggles to make sense of the grief that has
hobbled his family; in Mexico City, Arteaga's mistress alternates
between rage and heartbreak as she waits, in growing panic, for her
lover's return; in Austin, the Arteagas' housekeeper tries to piece
together a second life in an alienating new land; in Madrid,
Arteaga's son takes his dog through the hot and unforgiving
streets, in search of his father's ghost. A stunningly original
exploration of the wages of a hidden war, Barefoot Dogs is a
heartfelt elegy to the stolen innocence of every family struck by
tragedy. Urgent and vital fiction, "these powerful stories are
worthy of rereading in order to fully digest the far-reaching
implications of one man's disappearance...this singular book
affords the reader the chance to step inside a world of privilege
and loss, and understand how the two are inextricably intertwined"
(San Francisco Chronicle).
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