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| Book: | The Long Night of White Chickens |
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| Author: | Francisco Goldman |
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| Publisher: | Grove Press |
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The Long Night of White Chickens is a novel truely born of two worlds: it is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by an aristocrat Guatemalan mother, and his relationship with Flor de Mayo, the beautiful young Guatemalan orphan sent by his grandmother to live with his family as a maid. When, years later in the 1980s, Flor is murdered in Guatemala while running an orphanage, Roger returns to uncover the truth of her death. There he is reunited with Luis Moya, a childhood friend, and together they venture on a quest and chronicle of Flow’s whole life story that will prove to have unexpected, and unforgettable, repercussioins.
