This book is told by Grace Strasser-Mendana, an American woman left by her husband's death "in putative control of 59.8 percent of the arable land and about the same percentage of the decision-making process" in a country called Boca Grande. The story Grace tells is that of Charlotte Douglas, "a child of comfortable family in the temperate zone," who believes the world is peopled with others not unlike herself, and whose faith that things will turn out alright is unshaken by a first marriage to Warren, a man of dissolute and unpredictable charm, and a second marriage to Leonard, an activist lawyer-celebrity who divides his time between big money and radical politics. The only event in Charlotte's life to resist her "revisions and erasures" is her daughter, Marin- Marin, whose disappearance forces Charlotte into a flight of her own that finally takes her to Boca Grande. In Boca Grande, Charlotte is an outsider, involved in the complex politics and rivalries of the country's leading family almost by the accident of her presence, concentrating on the dangers of her past in a present that is even more dangerous than she knows.

This book was flighty, I thought. It was quick, I'll grant it, so I can't complain that much, but it was lacking a distinct plot, and therefore my mind wandered to other, non-existent plots.

Released on Thursday, December 23, 2004 at about 4:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Shearly Heaven Salon - Blackstock Rd. in Spartanburg, South Carolina USA.

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