New York: Scribner, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about the intertwining lives of several residents of a "luxurious hotel in an unnamed Central American capital in the midst of political turmoil. There is a Japanese-Mexican-American matadora in town for a bull-fighting competition; an ex-guerrilla now working as a waitress in the hotel coffee shop; a Korean manufacturer with an underage mistress ensconced in the honeymoon suite; an international adoption lawyer of German descent; a colonel who committed atrocities during his country's long civil war; and a Cuban poet who has come with his American wife to adopt a local infant. With each day, their lives become further entangled." 209 pp. ISBN: 978-1439181744.