The Tour Guide

<p><strong><em>The Tour Guide</em></strong> is a quietly powerful literary novel rooted in truth based on a true story of survival silence and succession in postcolonial Peru.</p><p></p><p>A story of deception reckoning death reunion and the unbearable weight of what a single life can contain.</p><p></p><p>A child is born in secret his presence unacknowledged his origin obscured by silence. Those with power conceal what they do not want to answer for.</p><p></p><p>Those without it learn to speak without words. Yet from the convent corridors of Yungay to the highest hacienda on the hill decisions are made without them. A girl is hidden. A baby disappears. No one signs a ledger. No one asks the right questions.</p><p></p><p>Set against the real-life devastation of the 1970 Ancash earthquake and avalanche the novel follows Santiago a Peruvian orphan raised in a shadow of secrets he doesn't know he carries as he searches for meaning belonging and the thread of identity across continents and decades.</p><p></p><p>What unfolds is a different kind of inheritance. A path that leads to San Miguel de Allende Mexico. The tour guide recounts his tale not as memory but as something more ominous. It has waited. It is coming.</p><p></p><p>At once intimate and sweeping <strong><em>The Tour Guide</em></strong> is a literary work of emotional archaeology. This incredible journey was casually shared with the author in a quiet café entrusted across time and memory and shaped into a work meant to endure.</p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A complex and appealingly lucid account of one man's deeply troubled past. - <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p>