Draining the Sea - Tapa blanda

"With the gorgeous prose that has characterized her previous works, Micheline Aharonian Marcom gives us a new work of obsession, tragedy, and the unpredictable trajectories of the heart. Crosscutting between the stories of a half-Armenian man in Los Angeles and a brutalized young woman in Guatemala, Marcom beautifully mines the undercurrents that suffuse their lives." -Cristina Garcaa, author of "Dreaming in Cuban" and "A Handbook to Luck"

aFew writers have the courage and the honesty to go the places Marcom goes...[her] most intense work to date.a
aPeter Orner, author of "The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo" and "Esther Stories"
aThe novelas evocative imagery and explicit prose can move as well as chill.a
a"Publishers Weekly"

?Few writers have the courage and the honesty to go the places Marcom goes...[her] most intense work to date.?
?Peter Orner, author of "The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo" and "Esther Stories"

?The novel's evocative imagery and explicit prose can move as well as chill.?
?"Publishers Weekly"

Tormented by memories of the Guatemalan civil war and the violent killing of a young Mayan woman, a man drives the streets of Los Angeles at night while struggling to reconcile his role in her death and the United States' seeming complicity in the horrors of the conflict. Reprint.