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Title: The Lucky Ones

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Julianne Pachico

Narrator: Marisol Ramirez, Ramón de Ocampo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-17

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A literary jigsaw puzzle of a debut novel set in Colombia during the peak of its decades-long conflict, and in New York City.

While her parents are away, a teenager finds herself home alone, with the household staff mysteriously gone, no phone connection, and news of an insurgency on the radio - and then she hears a knock at the door. Her teacher, who has been kidnapped by guerrillas, recites Shakespeare in the jungle to a class of sticks, leaves, and stones while his captors watch his every move. Another classmate, who has fled Colombia for the clubs of New York, is unable to forget the life she left behind without the help of the little bags of powder she carries with her.

Taking place over two decades, The Lucky Ones presents us with a world in which perpetrators are indistinguishable from saviors, the truth is elusive, and loved ones can disappear without a trace. A prismatic tale of a group of characters who emerge and recede throughout the novel and touch one another's lives in ways even they cannot comprehend, The Lucky Ones captures the intensity of life in Colombia as paramilitaries, guerrillas, and drug traffickers tear the country apart. Combining vivid descriptions of life under siege with a hallucinatory feel that befits its violent world, The Lucky Ones introduces a truly original and exciting new voice in fiction.

Critic Reviews:

"An expansive tapestry of a debut." (Elle)

"Riveting.... [A] carefully yet fiercely composed collage of voices that bears witness to the executions, forced disappearances, and other atrocities that took place in Colombia from 1993 to 2013 during the country's violent civil war.... [A] searing glimpse into the conflict.... Having lived in Colombia until she turned 18, Pachico has a firsthand connection to the country's charms and troubles that shines through on every gripping page." (Publishers Weekly)

"Julianne Pachico's tough and stunning novel set in both the Colombian and New York drug jungles kept this reader up all night and made her double-check that her front door was locked tight." (Lily Tuck, National Book Award-winning author of The News from Paraguay and The Double Life of Liliane)

Members Reviews:

Nobody's Lucky...Except for the Reader

Nobody seems particularly lucky in The Lucky Ones â not the teenager who declines a country house party invitation and finds herself alone with a menacing man right outside the door, not her former eight-grade teacher who is held prisoner and pontificates on Hamlet to the sticks and leaves, not Mariela, cruelly nicknamed Fatty by her peers who now exacts revenge on troops and prisoners and certainly not her father, a big wig executive who profits from the illegal drug trade.

Its blurb calls it a âliterary jigsaw puzzleâ and indeed, thatâs what it is â interweaving stories that stand by themselves with each of them playing a crucial role in creating a satisfying whole. Populated by privileged schoolgirls and their teachers, housekeepers, squadrons of self-dubbed revolutionaries, and even anthropomorphic drug-addicted rabbits, we get to explore the intersecting lives of those in Cali during the prime years of the conflict there.

A minor character suddenly appears in a major role in another chapter or a major character becomes a sidekick.