SURVIVING SANTIAGO — BRAVO LYN MILLER-LACHMAN

SURVIVING SANTIAGO by Lyn Miller-Lachmann, new book, just launched!!

is an electric mix of intrigue, mystery, and romance, set in politically-ravaged Santiago, Chile, 1989. This turn-page tale is told by the award-winning storyteller, Lyn Miller-Lachman, and in the telling, introduces the reader to history and politics, Chile, late 1980’s, the Pinochet dictatorship. Lyn envelopes the reader in the spicy, smoggy city of Santiago, the birth-place home of sixteen-year-old Tina Aguilar. Tina must spend an entire summer in Santiago, a visit demanded by her father, an alcoholic shadow of the person he once was before years of torture as a political prisoner. The inevitable happens – lonely girl meets good-looking boy. Frankie is a fast-moving charmer on a fast-moving motor cycle. Tina’s longing for friendship and maybe even love becomes reckless and treacherous. The author keeps us guessing “what next!” until the final chapter when unexpected truths await Tina.

SURVIVING SANTIAGO

The difficult and violent final months of the Pinochet regime in 1989 provide the political setting for SURVIVING SANTIAGO. This page-turning story continues the tale of the Aguilar family, first introduced in the critically acclaimed GRINGOLANDIA.

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