An Innocent FashionWriting in a fervently literary style that flirts openly with the traditions of Salinger, Plath, and Fitzgerald, Hernndez is a diamond sharp satirist and a bracingly fresh chronicler of the heartbreak of trying to grow up. Honest and absurd, funny and tragic, wild and lovely, this novel describes modern coming of age with poetic precision.* The Devil Wears Prada meets The Bell Jar in this story of a wide eyed Ivy League grad who discovers that his

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000-mile odyssey that proved the world was round—a journey of mutiny

A breathtaking portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans and a riveting descent into Mexico’s drug war

traveling with him when he becomes American minister to France

But his plans to welcome the area's growing Hispanic community are being met with resistance

Sofia’s struck by the beautiful mansion overlooking the sea

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cruel friends

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