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Growing up with a Colombian father for whom magical realism was a
way of life made ordinary reality feel like an immigrant experience
for author Jose Chaves, who was born in the U.S. but, as his father
would insist, made in Colombia That experience comes alive like a
movie on the page in The Contract of Love, a memoir about family
that is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Chaves' straightforward
style turns the familiar exotic and makes the unfamiliar feel like
home as he takes readers on a cultural journey from small-town,
muscle-car America to the Chaves family farm in Colombia, where the
cow is named Lyndon Johnson, and an emotional journey from his
father's volatile world where unrequited love is sung out loud in
restaurants, to a fraternity where the most important rule is to
never reveal your feelings to another guy in public. With
tenderness, humor, and hypnotic clarity, Chaves explores the
landscape of love that holds us together, beyond the addictions
that bind us-- from the broken faith that sends a boy spiraling
down, to the grace that finds the man.
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