Fruit of the Drunken Tree

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"A beautifully rendered novel of an Escobar-era Colombian childhood...Arresting..." —The New York Times Book Review Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by Vogue , Entertainment Weekly , Buzzfeed, BBC , New York Post, GoodReads, Refinery29, Bustle , BookRiot , Nylon , Fast Company , The Millions A mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar's violent reign about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid