A Small Perfect Place

<p>It’s the tumultuous 1970s and Truman DeVoto has had it with America. A failed marriage a two-faced brother the Nixon presidency the Vietnam War—the country is going down the drain and he’s bailing. With a pouch of stolen money he sets out for Brazil expecting to buy a cozy beach house from a Brazilian friend blend into a fishing village and work on his tan.</p><p>But the country is under the control of a military dictatorship. Even his fishing village may not be a perfect fit. Then he discovers a secret about his Brazilian friend and his sister and because of them Truman abandons his dream of a peaceful retirement and becomes involved in a movement to take down the government of his new home.</p><p>Although modern Brazil is an exuberantly democratic successful country in the 1970s it was overrun with poverty illiteracy and one of the world’s worst distributions of wealth. <i>A Small Perfect Place</i> is a fictional account of this turbulent period when Brazil regained its soul through the long struggle of its revolutionaries many of whom are presently the country’s political leaders.</p>