Chicken Coop in a High Wind

<p><strong>Beyond perfect for fans of Gabriel García Márquez John Irving and Barbara Kingsolver - one of those stories you'll wish you had read years ago.</strong> <em>- McKenzie Lynn Tozan Editor-in-Chief Lit Shark Magazine</em></p><p></p><p>Spanning nearly a century and three continents <em>Chicken Coop in a High Wind</em> recounts the saga of the Breton family. It begins with the patriarch Ernesto José Breton forced to flee his hometown in northern Brazil over a hapless poem published in the school newspaper. What follows is the particular chaos that trails people who never quite intended the lives they ended up living.</p><p></p><p>From the front lines of a 1964 coup d'état to Amazon gold-prospecting bohemianism in Paris voodooism in the Caribbean and finally near-present pandemic Los Angeles - where the famous unfamous and infamous are incited to do strange things every time the Santa Ana winds blow.</p><p></p><p>This is a story about people telling stories - and remembering them differently. It intertwines laughter with sorrow grand gestures with the unavoidable comedy of human fallibility. And it dares to ask: How does storytelling shape us? And how do we garble our own histories? Here is a world where history is a flighty tale - told erratically once retold differently later and taken as gospel always.</p>