Perdido
What drives Will Sawyer to pursue the truth about the death 20 years before of a young white girl in the New Mexico village of Guadeloupe never becomes clear. Neither does the truth itself. What is clear is that the townspeople, including Will's girlfriend, Lisa, do not support his desire to dig into past events and disturb those who were involved. Set in the same village as Collignon's first novel, The Journal of Antonio Montoya (LJ 5/1/96), Perdido describes tense relationships between ethnic and racial groups while delving into the concept of identity and providing subtle touches of magical realism. Eventually finding the solution to the mystery, however, may be of the utmost importance to some readers. Others will merely settle back and thoroughly enjoy the journey on which Collignon takes them. For all fiction collections.?Faye A. Chadwell, Univ. of Oregon, EugeneCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.