A Faraway Country
by Frank Hilaire (9780979748905)

It's early '95, and from across cultures and untold miles, PK heeds psychical prompts from a tiny Maya girl and heads south in an old Dodge van. Along the way, flashbacks revisit his 11 years in prison, an escape from Folsom, and how, upon release in '70, he finds employment as an "agent of Mexico's dedicated guerrillas." Now decades later, we follow our "two-fisted killer man" to Chiapas, to mysterious Maya Mexico. Against a backdrop of Zapatistas (EZLN) locked in a mortal struggle with NAFTA and an amoral government, we meet immensely memorable characters, among them: otherlaw Gat, footless Vietnam vet; China-eyed Ana, psychedelic sorceress; flamboyant Biga, tormented Maya street queen; beautiful Nichim, slave girl; Wiz-wiz, Zapatista warrior woman; we follow the Fills-seekers of Atlantis and 60ish ex-pats-as they dodge the $30,000 "official adoptions racket" to legally become the "birth" parents of baby Dream: cost-$12.. With "long-term hard-timer" PK as guide, A FARAWAY COUNTRY probes tinderbox Maya-Mexico while offering a troubling view of Mexico as a viciously apartheid culture, a deftly-manipulated penitentiary to millions, and just another US-propped failed state.

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