Short War by Lily Meyer Paperback Book 9781646053155

Told in three distinct voices Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile the hunt for the author of an eyeopening literary detective story and a complex reckoning with American political intervention in South Americaamp10When sixteenyearold Gabriel Lazris an American in Santiago Chile meets Caro Ravest something clicks Caro who is Chilean is charming curious and deeply herself Gabriel dreams of their future together But everybodys saying thereamp8217s going to be a coupand no one says it louder than Gabrielamp8217s dad a Nixonloving newspaper editor who Gabriel suspects is working with the CIA Gabrielamp8217s father is adamant that the moment political unrest erupts their family is going home To Gabriel though Chile is homeamp160Decades later Gabrielamp8217s Americanraised adult daughter Nina heads to Buenos Aires in a lastditch effort to save her dissertation Quickly though she gets sidetracked first by a sexy professor then by a controversial book called Guerra Eterna A document of war and an underground classic Guerra Eterna transforms Ninaamp8217s sense of her family and identity pushing her to confront the moral weight of being an American...