{"product_id":"at-night-we-walk-in-circles-a-novel-9781594631719","title":"At Night We Walk in Circles: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNPR Best Books of 2013 BookPage Best Books of 2013 Bookriot Best Books of 2013 San Francisco Chronicle Favorite Books of 2013: Francisco Goldman Flavorwire 15 Favorite Novels of 2013  The breakout book from a prizewinning young writer: a breathtaking  suspenseful story of one mans obsessive search to find the truth of another mans downfall.  Nelsons life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man  his brother has left their South American country  leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother  and his acting career cant seem to get off the ground. That is  until he lands a starring role in a touring revival of The Idiot President  a legendary play by Nelsons hero  Henry Nunez  leader of the storied guerrilla theater troupe Diciembre. And thats when the real trouble begins.  The tour takes Nelson out of the shelter of the city and across a landscape hes never seen  which still bears the scars of the civil war. With each performance  Nelson grows closer to his fellow actors  becoming hopelessly entangled in their complicated lives  until  during one memorable performance  a long-buried betrayal surfaces to force the troupe into chaos.  Nelsons fate is slowly revealed through the investigation of the narrator  a young man obsessed with Nelsons storyand perhaps closer to it than he lets on. In sharp  vivid  and beautiful prose  Alarcn delivers a compulsively readable narrative and a provocative meditation on fate  identity  and the large consequences that can result from even our smallest choices.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650376556597,"sku":"ByrdShop_1594631719","price":65.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781594631719.jpg?v=1781795257","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/at-night-we-walk-in-circles-a-novel-9781594631719","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}