NOVEL: Don’t Let Me Die in Disneyland: The 3-D Life of Eddie Loperena

 
A picaresque, smart, and smartass memoir of Harvard lawyer Eddie Loperena’s Newyorican life in “the country I was offered.”

“Beaming with profound truths dressed in satire and humor,…. The author’s captivating writing style in vividly imaging places, characters and events made for quite an evocative read.” –Online Book Club

   “Marzán has created a dynamic protagonist…Eddie’s persistent resolve, even as he’s sorting out his personal convictions regarding Puerto Ricans in America, is a buoyant, appealing trait…Relays political notions of racial and social identity through a smart, sympathetic, and laudable lead.” – Kirkus Reviews

“This was a witty and entertaining read and kudos to the author for a story cleverly woven together.” – Kisha Green for Literary Jewels

✮✮✮✮½ – Goodreads Community Reviews

 

Brought to New York from Puerto Rico when he was seven, Eddie Loperena grew up dreaming of returning to his island paradise.
 
As he approaches forty, the loss of his wife and his business partner have landed Eddie at a crossroads, so he closes his legal practice when he gets a call from his estranged boyhood friend Carlos, now a well-known drug dealer. Carlos
extracts a favor from Eddie to hold two suitcases full of “valuable papers.”
 
Surviving a vindictive D.A.’s threat to prosecute, citywide rumors that he has disappeared with his friend’s illicit money, and a media circus intent to cast the complex situation into a two-dimensional context, Eddie decides to write the third dimension of a tragicomic satire of the seventies, of the island of his birth that cast him adrift, and of his minority membership in “the country I was offered.”

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Don’t Let Me Die in Disneyland: The 3-D Life of Eddie Loperena by J.A. Marzán
ISBN-13: 978-1948598026
SRP (Paperback) $19.95 / SRP (eBook) $8.99