Wheres Bob? (Trade Paper)

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Newly divorced, Lydias life is in a downward spiral. Looking for respite, she takes off on a vacation to Mexico with her formerly estranged mother. But instead of sun and sand, what she finds beyond the hotels miniature jungles and Mayan statuary and folk dancing is a country where the people, many of whom serve her and her mother at the resort, live in fear, their lives dominated by cartels and corruption, and where journalists and politicians are made to disappear for even poking around the truth. But its also where she finds Bob, a mysterious man from Detroit who works all the angles.Peeling away the fantasy veneer of the tourists Mexico to reveal a real life underworld of money laundering, political intimidation, and murder,Wheres Bob?offers up a fast-paced tragicomic page-turner about mothers and daughters and the callous blindness of tourists, and how easy it is to slip from one world into the other.Praise for Anne IrelandScrupulous, vivid detailing of emotion, compulsion, strugglebloody awful old loveIts chilling, the way you feel the artist in her, not just the women, going under. The huge disparity between what one lover is ready to give and the other is able to takewhen you realize what her role in his life is and his in hersthats to me the real discovery. And thats when the story transcends this story, these particular people. It doesnt say, Good thing she got away from that asshole, about time she figured him out in the standard, boring feminist style. It says something like, Lookthis is how we are, this is how we live.Alice MunroIrelands writing has remarkable humour, and gentle but unshying insight into character. As a past president of PEN, no doubt shes heard tales to make one shudder.The Globe and Mail[Ireland] is unquestionably an engrossing read.The Toronto Star[Ireland] has a gift for alternating dialogue with long paragraphs describing complex emotional shifts. These nuanced interior musings mirror the unstated counterpoint to conversations between two people who have an involved history, who know one anothers thresholds emotionally, intellectually physically. Ireland has created a physical look on the page for this state. she is a strong graphic writer.Ottawa Citizen