From Publishers Weekly:
The ingenuous voice of the narrator, small-time drug dealer Louis Sanders, ameliorates the chilling aspects of Roper's macabre plot, which, by the end of the novel, leaves several of the principal characters dead. As the son of a famous racketeering lawyer, Sanders only gradually discovers his father's connection to the mob. Summers are spent in Mexico with his sister, Sylvia, and the twin daughters of his father's "business partner," and a complicated emotional bond develops among the children. The girls later attend a Mexican convent school together, and Sylvia and one twin become members of a left-wing radical cell. Sanders, meanwhile, drops out of college and becomes a drug runner. When he's rounded up in a Mexican drug sweep and nearly killed, Sanders realizes how powerful his father's connections are. The end of the novel brings a chance for Sanders to avenge his father's death and prove himself a success for perhaps the first time in his life. After an 11-year hiatus, Roper ( Royo County ) has written an engrossing spellbinder which successfully explores its theme of how sins of the fathers are visited on the children.
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From Library Journal:
This unusual novel is the fictional autobiography of Louis Sanders, a drug dealer whose sister, Sylvia, is a full-time Berkeley dissident. The offspring of a film star mother who died early from a careless drug overdose and a menacing, powerful father with complex links to the labor movement, underworld, and entertainment industry, Louis and Sylvia commute back and forth between California and Mexico as children. They experience childhood love affairs with Marcela and Marta, the twin children of their Mexican host. Their upbringing has a pervasive effect on their lives. Although the plot rambles dangerously, and at times threatens to founder on its own pretension, this is a highly successful blend of parable, social commentary, nostalgia, and black humor.
- John North, NorCom Enterprises, Toronto
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