Robert Boswell

A thoughtful, funny, and penetrating portrait of a modern American family that explores the breaches and bonds between husbands and wives, parents and children--and introduces one of the most incorrigible and affecting teenagers since Holden Caulfield.

American expatriate Leon Green, manager of a rundown hotel, and other local residents of La Boca, a Central American seaside village, are forced to confront a whole new world when the country's civil war begins to affect the town