![]() ![]() ![]() The other narrator is Petrona, who is their maid. By our standards, they don't have much, but when people across the city are living in shacks without electricity or running water, they seem very wealthy. Chula, who along with her mother and older sister, is a member of the middle class in Colombia. The book is set in Colombia in the early 1990s, when the cocaine lord Pablo Escobar held most of the political and economic power, and the wealth disparity led many low income individuals to support and encourage the gruesome violence of the guerillas. ![]() In many ways, FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE explores similar themes to other women-centered works of literary fiction like GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER or HOMEGOING. ![]() I almost didn't read this book because it was such a wild card - and I am so glad I did not do that. People will pile on to heap praises about one book in particular while utterly ignoring brilliant contributions to the literary canon like this. I wonder about Goodreads users sometimes. ![]()
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