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Author Maren, Mesha, author.

Title Perpetual West : a novel / by Mesha Maren.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F MAREN, M.    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC MAREN    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION MAREN    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  FIC MAREN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F MAREN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FIC MARE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  F MAREN    Check Shelf
 Granby, F.H. Cossitt Branch - Adult  NEW MAREN, MESHA    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  MAREN, MESHA    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  MAREN, MESHA    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 374 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary "As Alex and Elana try to make their home among the academics and young leftists in El Paso and Juárez, they are pulled from each other by an affair with a lucha libre fighter, their struggles to define themselves, and the loud cry of home"-- Provided by publisher.
When Alex and Elana move from smalltown Virginia to El Paso, they are just a young married couple, intent on a new beginning. Mexican by birth but adopted by white American Pentecostal parents, Alex is hungry to learn about the place where he was born. He spends every free moment across the border in Juárez--perfecting his Spanish, hanging with a collective of young activists, and studying lucha libre (Mexican wrestling) for his graduate work in sociology. Meanwhile Elana, busy fighting her own demons, feels disillusioned by academia and has stopped going to class. And though they are best friends, Elana has no idea that Alex has fallen in love with Mateo, a lucha libre fighter. When Alex goes missing and Elana can't determine whether he left of his own accord or was kidnapped, it's clear that neither of them has been honest about who they are.
Subject Group identity -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Lucha libre -- Fiction.
Marriage -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.
El Paso (Tex.) -- Fiction.
Mexico -- Fiction.
FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General
FICTION / Family Life / General
FICTION / Cultural Heritage
Adultery. (OCoLC)fst00797378
Group identity. (OCoLC)fst00948442
Identity (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00966892
Lucha libre. (OCoLC)fst01982978
Marriage. (OCoLC)fst01010443
Missing persons. (OCoLC)fst01023702
Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
Texas -- El Paso. (OCoLC)fst01206678
Genre/Form Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Gay fiction. (OCoLC)fst01986220
Gay fiction.
Domestic fiction.
ISBN 9781643750941 (hardcover)
1643750941 (hardcover)
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