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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 811.54 EAN: 9780060779207 ISBN: 0060779209 Label: Rayo Manufacturer: Rayo Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: August 01, 2005 Publisher: Rayo Release Date: August 09, 2005 Studio: Rayo Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: From award-winning poet Benjamin Alire Sáenz comes In Perfect Light, a haunting novel depicting the cruelties of cultural displacement and the resilience of those who are left in its aftermath. In Perfect Light is the story of two strong-willed people who are forever altered by a single tragedy. After Andrés Segovia's parents are killed in a car accident when he is still a young boy, his older brother decides to steal the family away to Juárez, Mexico. That decision, made with the best intentions, sets into motion the unraveling of an American family. Years later, his family destroyed, Andrés is left to make sense of the chaos -- but he is ill-equipped to make sense of his life. He begins a dark journey toward self-destruction, his talent and brilliance brought down by the weight of a burden too frightening and maddening to bear alone. The manifestation of this frustration is a singular rage that finds an outlet in a dark and seedy El Paso bar -- leading him improbably to Grace Delgado. Recently confronted with her own sense of isolation and mortality, Grace is an unlikely angel, a therapist who agrees to treat Andrés after he is arrested in the United States. The two are suspicious of each other, yet they slowly arrive at a tentative working relationship that allows each of them to examine his and her own fragile and damaged past. Andrés begins to confront what lies behind his own violence, and Grace begins to understand how she has contributed to her own self-exile and isolation. What begins as an intriguing favor to a friend becomes Grace's lifeline -- even as secrets surrounding the death of Andrés' parents threaten to strain the connection irreparably. With the urgent, unflinching vision of a true storyteller and the precise, arresting language of a poet, Sáenz's In Perfect Light bears witness to the cruelty of circumstance and, more than offering escape, the novel offers the possibility of salvation. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Finished with tears and with hopeRight from the beginning of this novel I knew I was in masterful hands. Saenz moves between characters and perspectives and time with a fluid, beautiful grace. His characters are complex, nuanced, and impressively real. I wish I knew Grace, that she lived down the block. I want to have Miser and Liz and Vincente over for dinner. I was to take Andres in my arms. And more importantly he's written a book that will stick with me. I hope one that will make me more generous toward people, ... Read More Rating: - La verdadThis novel is incredible. Well crafted, I could not stop reading, did not want it to end, did not want to return it to the library. The light is what heals, redeems, allows us to return to wholeness. Andres spends his 26 years feeling like someone's dirty secret. By telling his story to Grace, the truth is revealed, the shame begins to fall away. Grace also begins to see herself as she truly is, somone who has helped and touched others, someone who is wife and mother but also she finds peace in being ... Read More Rating:  - When Bad Things Happen to Good PeopleIn Perfect Light, Benjamin Alire Saenz. On the edge of US and Mexico sit El Paso and Juarez. Saenz considers this intersection as well as the intersections between the lives and deaths of people living there. Grace, the social worker with cancer, Mister (I never could figure out why anyone would name their child 'Mister' -- she did not otherwise seem like a weirdo) her son, who wants to adopt a child, Andres Segovia, the orphan in his twenties, and Dave Duncan, the criminal lawyer who wants to fix the world, ... Read More Rating: - A tragic masterpieceAndres Segovia's parents die in a car accident and his brother decides to move he and his siblings to Mexico so they could stay together. The move changes the entire course of Andres' life, as well as how he views his place in the world. Andres and his brothers and sisters must come to terms with being American-born Hispanics living in a Mexican world. All the tradegy's that these children are faced with is enough to make anyone jump off a bridge. After making ... Read More Rating: - "Standing in the light, they look like salvation itself"Set in the sun baked cities of El Paso and Juarez; In Perfect Light is all about fear, reminiscence, and loss, where the light forever holds hopes and dreams and where the night brings its own memory and revenge. In this story, the lucky ones sleep through the chaos. Full of startling imagery and poetic description, In Perfect Life centers on two very different people who meet up through the legal system and who recognize the pain of living in each other. Grace Delgado is a therapist and has begun ... Read More 
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