Sea Monsters

- Blurb -

A novel full of the blinding sunlight of Mexico, heat, thunder, relentless rain and the ocean, music and magic - it's about growing up, memories and the moments that form usOne autumn afternoon in Mexico City, 17-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomas, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking - recklessness, impulse, independence - and may also help her fulfil an unusual obsession- to track down a troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs that has recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. They head for Zipolite, the 'Beach of the Dead?, a community peopled with hippies, nudists, beach combers and eccentric storytellers, and Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will 'promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery?. But as she wanders the shoreline, she begins to discover that a quest is more easily envisioned than accomplished.And so unfolds a mesmeric, moving tale of adolescence, transgression and disenchantment. Sea Monsters offers an intoxicating portrait of Mexican youth culture in the late 1980s, a place of blinding sunlight and relentless rains. It is a poignant evocation of memory and buried secrets, the pull of fantasy colliding with the stark light of reality - a dreamlike yet vivid story of the moments and mysteries that shape us.