The Wild OnesExplores parents in prison, extreme poverty, violence and young people, drug trafficking and police brutality. Fifteen year old Efran and his two younger brothers live in a house on the hillside in Monterrey, Northern Mexico. They are left to fend for themselves after their mother is wrongly arrested for theft. Now it falls to Efran to clear Ms name and to look out for his younger brothers, too. M has raised her boys to keep out of trouble with the

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connections to other people and the natural world

He lives in Cairo

The book seeks catharsis

of material and imaginative possibility

will travel’

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these stories offer an enthralling introduction to the work of one of contemporary fiction’s greatest magicians

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