Beyond Palomar

9781560978824

1560978821

Beyond Palomar collects two of Gilbert's groundbreaking worksabout the Central American hamlet of Palomar in one affordablebook."Poison River" is a dizzying period piece often hailed as one ofHernandez's masterpieces. It traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba,her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind hermysterious mother, all the way up to her subsequent escape and arrivalin Palomar. "Love and Rockets X," set in the early 1990s (in the waningyears of Bush I's post-Reagan hangover, with Gulf War I in thebackground), takes us from plush Beverly Hills to the dangerous eastside and introduces us to a dizzyingly diverse cast of characters,including a lowlife rock 'n' roll band, a "posse" of black youths, aditzy Hollywood mom and her spoiled son, a gay activist filmmaker andhis rebellious, half-Iraqi daughter, and a group of racist thugs whoseviolent attack on an older woman sets the plot in motion.