Chicken Coop in a High Wind - Softcover

Costa Veras, Leonardo

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798822930490

Publisher: Leonardo Veras, 2023

Synopsis

"Beyond perfect for fans of Gabriel García Márquez, John Irving, and Barbara Kingsolver - one of those stories you'll wish you had read years ago." - McKenzie Lynn Tozan, Editor-in-Chief, Lit Shark Magazine

Spanning nearly a century and three continents, Chicken Coop in a High Wind recounts the saga of the Breton family. It begins with the patriarch, Ernesto José Breton, forced to flee his hometown in northern Brazil over a hapless poem published in the school newspaper. What follows is the particular chaos that trails people who never quite intended the lives they ended up living.

From the front lines of a 1964 coup d'état, to Amazon gold-prospecting, bohemianism in Paris, voodooism in the Caribbean, and finally near-present pandemic Los Angeles - where the famous, unfamous, and infamous are incited to do strange things every time the Santa Ana winds blow.

This is a story about people telling stories - and remembering them differently. It intertwines laughter with sorrow, grand gestures with the unavoidable comedy of human fallibility. And it dares to ask: "How does storytelling shape us? And how do we garble our own histories? Here is a world where history is a flighty tale - told erratically once, retold differently later, and taken as gospel always.

About this title

About the Author

Leonardo Costa Veras was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and moved to the United States in 1990. He has a degree in Cinema and a career in advertising as a commercial producer. He has written screenplays, short stories, a novella and a stage play. Chicken Coop in a High Wind is his first novel. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Leonardo Veras
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798822930490
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 566