

As soon as she's old enough, Jean follows. Before long Marco goes on the run from his family and responsibilities-to Asia, to Europe, and eventually back to Mexico-with long crack and whiskey binges, suffering from what he claimed were CIA mind control experiments.

Marco was a self-taught genius at fixing and creating things-including a mythology about himself as a shaman, a dreamcaster, and an animal whisperer, rather than the failed father, husband, and son he feared he was. Marco Antonio was born in Mexico but as a teenager migrated with his large family north to California, where he met Jean's mother, a young Puerto Rican woman just out of med school. In the tradition of parent-child memoirs, Enrique's Journey meets The Glass Castle, here is the haunting story of a daughter's quest to understand her father, to save him from his own demons and to save herself from following his self-destructive path. Описание: A daughter's quest to find, understand, and save her charismatic, troubled, and elusive father, a self-mythologizing Mexican immigrant who travels across continents-and across the borders between imagination and reality and spirituality and insanity-fleeing real and invented persecutors.
