O clube dos jardineiros de fumaça
By: Carol Bensimon
Publisher: Companhia das Letras
Published: 2017
Place of publication: São Paulo, Brazil]
Language: por
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9788535930122
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Fiction; Decision making; Marijuana; Portuguese fiction; Social aspects
Description: Arthur, a professor in Porto Alegre, decides to cultivate marijuana to help with his mother's medical treatment; this gets him embroiled in a scandal that costs him his job and compromises his father's reputation. After his mother's death he moves to northern California, ostensibly to pursue a doctorate, but in the end he becomes further involved in the planting and commerce of marijuana. This leads him to more new experiences -- the disappearance of a young Brazilian woman, an attempt to carry on a three-way relationship, the transformation of an old hippie commune into an Airbnb -- as he witnesses the inescapable influence of marijuana on the society, politics and culture of idyllic Mendocino County.
Notes: In Portuguese.