{"product_id":"horse-latitudes-9781945814761","title":"Horse Latitudes","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"When your life vanishes, how do you do anything but follow it?\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e Haunted by guilt and reeling from his shattered marriage, New York photographer Ethan flees south to a Central American country on the brink of revolution. Ethan doesn't know if he's seeking redemption or punishment, but--one bad choice after another--he finds himself indebted to Yolanda, who gives him a chance, if anything she's saying is true, to find both. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Yolanda's sister is deep in the country's interior, waiting for a man named Soto--a slave trafficker posing as a migrant guide. The journey to find her plunges Ethan into a feverish world of demented expatriates, intelligence officers, mystics and lunatics, where loyalties are uncertain and ghosts unshakable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A harrowing examination of post-colonial blight, \u003ci\u003eHorse Latitudes\u003c\/i\u003e is a lushly written tropical gothic--part thriller, part nightmarish journey into the corruption at the heart of US intervention in Central America--that peers into the world of Mario Vargas Llosa's \u003ci\u003eThe Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e through the lens of Elliot Ackerman's \u003ci\u003eDark at the Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollins, Morris:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Morris Collins's fiction and poetry has recently appeared in \u003ci\u003ePleiades, Gulf Coast, The Chattahoochee Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Iron Horse Review, Nimrod, \u003c\/i\u003e and others. He lives in Boston and teaches at The College of the Holy Cross and Clark University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676153250066,"sku":"9781945814761","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f144382a-eabf-4ea9-9a19-c35a6aa0811d.jpg?v=1761046457","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/horse-latitudes-9781945814761","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}