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and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend

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though sometimes he refuses to see her and so instead she gets to know his fellow inmates: Olof

There's No Point in Dying field guides he finds it haunted by"Alluring . . . powerful . . . an indelible depiction of a community on the brink of disaster."Publishers Weekly In this kaleidoscopic novel set in a favela of Rio de Janeiroin the city of stray bullets, in the land of lost opportunitiesa gang member runs wildly through the streets not knowing he has only seven minutes left to live. Barflies, prostitutes, immigrants, a gay couple, a taxi driver, cops, a mobster, and more populate Francisco Maciels