Overview
The trip home from hell: everything that can go wrong, will go wrong, when the protagonist, who has emigrated, returns to Mexico.
JP, the protagonist, returns to his hometown in Mexico after many years abroad, where he has a peaceful life. He returns to help his siblings care for his parents, who are now elderly. What should have been a brief visit becomes the visit from hell and JP a murder suspect. A photo of a bullet circulates, and everyone seems determined to offer him pills of dubious origin: could they be melatonin, tranquilizers, amphetamines, poison?
Weaving outright hilarity with wry tenderness, Villalobos tells of the changes time has wrought on the family, friends and town the protagonist once knew.
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