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Benjamin Kunkel’s brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our time–a pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse.Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a dissolute, dorm like existence in a tiny apartment and working in tech support at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer are not especially conducive to...
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Orquídea Divina Montoya, the mysterious reclusive matriarch of her family, invites family members to her funeral and to collect their inheritance. They hope to learn her secrets, but instead she turns into a tree leaving them shocked and puzzled. Seven years later, her descendants Marimar, Rey, and Rhiannon all receive blessings and powers from Orquidea. But when someone sets out to destroy the family tree, picking off members one by one, the three...