| Like Son
Set amidst the outsider worlds of New York, Los Angeles, and Mexico City, Like Son is the not-so-simple story of a father, a son, and the love blindness shared between them.
Meet Frank Cruz: a post-punk thirty-year-old who
unwittingly inherits his dead father's legacy. Born a bouncing baby
girl named Francisca to parents tangled in a doomed love affair, Frank
grows up in both the poorest barrios and poshest hills of Southern
California. At the age of eighteen, Frank moves to the big city, but is pulled back into helping his estranged
and blind father navigate an untimely death. Upon his death, Frank's
father leaves his only child a mysterious crumbling photograph of a woman with a
stunning gaze: Nahui Olin, a captivating member of the early 20th century
Mexican avant-garde who once brought tragedy upon the Cruz family.
Punctured to his core by Nahui, Frank takes her portrait and
flees to New York City to start anew—this time for real. There he
meets fiery and eccentric Nathalie. They fall in
love. Seven years of happy-go-lucky life later, the New York skyline tumbles and Frank finds himself
smack in the middle of his predestined fate.
"Lemus doesn't waste a word in this smart novel."
-Publishers Weekly
"[A] powerfully written chronicle of love."
-Booklist
"Lemus is a writer with a serious voice."
-Time Out New York
"A writer with an unparalleled literary style and attitude, Felicia
Luna Lemus comes charging full force."
-El Paso Times
"[A] must read
book."
-Latina Magazine
"Felicia Luna Lemus is a literary alchemist: she combines words that you
never before thought could exist in the same sentence. She breaks all
the rules and makes you wonder why you thought there were any. But
enough about her style...The characters in Like Son are truly original
creations—it would take a heart of stone not to love them."
-Vendela Vida, author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
"Felicia
Luna Lemus' fresh yet plain-spoken prose roots us in today's sad and
sweeping chaos, as hope, love, and wild myth propel her unique
characters into an unknown future. Like Son is a sweet song of a story."
-Michelle Tea, author of Rose of No Man's Land
"Like Son
is a love story that, like a psychic's trick, leaves nothing unbent:
not gender, not culture north and south of the border, not time, or
friendship, not even love itself. Don't try to understand how it
happens; just watch, and be amazed."
-Paul La Farge, author of Haussmann, or the Distinction
"Like Son moves on the wings of a soulful, visceral kind of androgeny.
Old men, young men, hot girls—all step forward and sing from their
stuttering hearts. Like Son is one terrific read."
-Eileen Myles, author of Cool for You
"Like Son is revelatory: a truly original exploration of the complex
relationships that shape a wonderfully complicated protaganist. This is
intimate storytelling of the best kind."
-Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned
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