| Any Wednesday I'm Yours.
Mayra Santos-Febres.
Riverhead, 2005.
Paperback. (Encuadernación rústica).
ISBN 159448001X. 320 pp.
"Santos-Febres shows a real skill for navigating the contours of urban loneliness—and better yet, she understands intuitively that if solitude can be miserable, it can also be intensely erotic." —The Village Voice
"Santos-Febres seems to write with hot oils, and the page glistens." —Harvard Review
Julián Castrodad is an ex-reporter and failed novelist working the night shift at the Motel Tulán. He rents rooms by the hour. His rules: never notice who checks in—and never let them notice you. A sleepwalker who's lost nearly everything—his girl, his hopes for a career as a writer, his dreams—Julián has no trouble cultivating invisibility. But tonight his subtle tricks at navigating this clandestine world unravel with the arrival of three strangers: Chino Pereira, a notorious drug dealer; labor attorney Efraim Soreno; and a mysterious woman only known as M, who arrives in a rented Mercedes to spend the night with a brandy glass and a bottle. Before morning, one of them will be dead, two will be missing, and Julián will feel compelled to discover why. What they have in common is something Julián never imagined—a secret and dangerous world better left to the shadows.
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