![]() These two narrators, the protagonist and archivist, become witnesses to a thirty-year span of US and Mexican history. The archivist gradually reveals herself, and we learn her relationship to Harrison Shepherd and what happened to him. At that point, the structure shifts to a series of diary entries, written by Harrison. The early chapters are told in third person by an omniscient narrator, but the reader learns, via an archivist’s entry, that these chapters were written by Harrison Shepherd years later, after he had become a notable author. The novel is complex in its narrative structure. When the romance grows stale, Salome takes Harrison to Mexico City to live with another of her lovers. Left mostly to himself, Harrison learns to cook and helps in the kitchen. Salome left Harrison’s American father in Virginia and traveled to Mexico to live a lavish lifestyle with Enrique. Protagonist Harrison Shepherd is thirteen years old lives with his Mexican mother, Salome, and her paramour, Enrique. ![]() Ambitious historical fiction that begins on an island off the coast of Mexico in 1929. ![]()
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