The book I read this week, The Lady Matador's Hotel, by Cristina Garcia, was a very well written novel. It's about a collection of people who are all staying at a hotel in a Central American city. They are a diverse group comprised of the lady matador, a former guerilla, a man who committed atrocities during the most recent civil war, a Korean businessman with a teenaged girlfriend who's pregnant, a lawyer who brokers baby adoptions, and a Cuban poet and his wife hoping to adopt an infant. Each of the characters has a particular problem that he or she must solve before the end of the book. Each does, and in a way that I found unexpected but also strangely satisfying.
This is the first book I've read by Ms. Garcia, though she's written several. I will definitely try to read more of her work in the future.
I highly recommend The Lady Matador's Hotel.
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