Barefoot Dogs
Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
Scribner
<b>A <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> Recommended Book of 2015 * A <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> Best Book of 2015 * One of the <i>Texas Observer</i>'s "Five Books We Loved in 2015" * One of PRI's "The World's Five Books You Should Read in 2016"</b><BR> <BR>"Profound and wrenching...A deeply moving chronicle of one family's collective devastation, full of remarkable wisdom and humor" (<i>The</i> <i>New York Times Book Review</i>) that follows the members of a wealthy Mexican family after their patriarch is kidnapped.<BR>On an unremarkable night, Jos&#233; Victoriano Arteaga&#8212;the head of a thriving Mexico City family&#8212;vanishes on his way home from work. The Arteagas find few answers; the full truth of what happened to Arteaga is lost to the shadows of Mexico's vast underworld. But soon packages arrive to the family house, offering horrifying clues.<BR> <BR>Fear, guilt, and the prospect of financial ruin fracture the once-proud family and scatter them across the globe, yet delicate...</BR></BR></BR></BR></BR>