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Bisexual Content: A main character (cisgender man) is bisexual.
Intersecting Marginalized Identities: The main bisexual character is Latinx, Colombian.
Summary - Author's Website: Santiago Villalba, the illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner, suffers the extremes of contemporary malaise. He is ambivalent, disaffected, apolitical, bisexual, addicted to cocaine. As the story opens, Santiago and his wife return to the place of his birth, Barranquilla, and to the bedside of his ailing father, who has inspired a driving hatred in his son. This rage extends to his stepfather, who is grooming him to take over the family business (once bananas, now marijuana) and urging him to prepare himself for political office and "assume the responsibilities of his class." When his father dies, Santiago believes he is finally free, only to find himself at the hub of a nightmarish world in which each of the principals in his life...leads him into further confusion, corruption, and disaster. Finally, despised and endangered by both his "friends" and enemies, he is forced to take action.