Search Party

<h4><em>Search Party </em>Winner of the Eliud Martínez Prize<em> </em>from Inlandia Institute</h4><h4>by René Solivan </h4><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Reminiscent of Ruben Degollado's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Family Izquierdo</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and most certainly a nod to Eugene O'Neill's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Long Day's Journey Into Night </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>this novel told in alternating perspectives is a stellar debut. </span></p><p></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Search Party</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a novel of departure. It asks us to think about the gauzy dreamy world we are all tempted to look for and why we might dare go hunting for the place that holds our hopes our secrets and our joys. -Manuel Muñoz author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Consequences</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This book is so sad and I love it. In</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Search Party </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>we meet a family who is holding on to each other by a thread but mostly by blood. A family who continues to get pulled back into a chaotic and painful orbit around their mother a woman who never wanted a family and is always leaving them. This book asks the question What happens when women don't want a family but are forced to have one? The answer if it offers any is uncomfortable and multilayered. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Isabel Quintero Eliud Martínez Prize judge and author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Gabi a Girl in Pieces</em></p><p></p><h3>About <em>Search Party</em></h3><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Meet the motley cast of family members: </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Vinita</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> the restless mother who has spent her life abandoning her family to pursue her dream of being in the movies; </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Luis</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> the son who can't hold down a job but can talk to dead people; his sister </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Ivonne </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>who-after five marriages to rich men-has nothing to show for it but money and a son who can't stand her; their sister </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Olivia</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> the writer struggling to piece together the family's history never sure if she's writing a memoir or not; as well as an extended family dealing with their own inadequacies and disappointments. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Search Party </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>emerges as a vibrant portrait of a Puerto Rican family that renders the intricate workings of the heart.</span></p>