{"product_id":"la-perdida","title":"La Perdida","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Harvey and Lulu award-winning creator of \u003ci\u003eArtbabe\u003c\/i\u003e comes a riveting story of a young woman's misadventures in Mexico City. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, heads to Mexico City to \"find herself.\" She crashes with a former fling, Harry, who has been drinking his way through the capital in the great tradition of his heroes, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Harry is good--humored about Carla's reappearance on his doorstep--until he realizes that Carla, who spends her days soaking in the city, exploring Frida Kahlo's house, and learning Spanish, has no intention of leaving. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Harry and Carla's relationship of mutual tolerance reaches its inevitable end, she rejects his world of Anglo expats for her own set of friends: pretty-boy Oscar, who sells pot and dreams of being a DJ, and charismatic Memo, a left-wing, pseudo-intellectual ladies' man. Determined to experience the real Mexico, Carla turns a blind eye to her new friends' inconsistencies. But then she catches the eye of a drug don, el Gordo, and from that moment on her life gets a lot more complicated, and she is forced to confront the irreparable consequences of her willful innocence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJessica Abel's evocative black-and-white drawings and creative mix of English and Spanish bring Mexico City's past and present to life, unfurling Carla's dark history against the legacies of Burroughs and Kahlo. A story about the youthful desire to live an authentic life and the consequences of trusting easy answers, \u003ci\u003eLa Perdida--\u003c\/i\u003eat once grounded in the particulars of life in Mexico and resonantly universal--is a story about finding oneself by getting lost.","brand":"Pantheon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62084991943026,"sku":"BS-R4W-714719","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/2972\/2226\/files\/9780375714719-HD.jpg?v=1784499179","url":"https:\/\/www.novelpanel.com\/products\/la-perdida","provider":"Novel Panel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}