Tarantula - by Eduardo Halfon (Paperback)

About the Book

"During an end-of-the-year school break in 1984, two brothers, aged 12 and 13, exiled for several years in the United States, travel home to Guatemala to learn survival skills in a Jewish children's camp in a remote forest in the highland mountains. Despite their reluctance, the boys, who no longer know their homeland and barely speak the language, have been signed up by their parents who hope to restore their allegiance to their religious and national heritage. Upon their arrival, they are met with the promise of adventure in the person of the camp director, Samuel. But early one morning they are roused from their beds and forced to play a sinister game that they can't afford to lose. In this latest installment of his eponymous narrator's journey, Eduardo Halfon unleashes a nightmare scenario of violence, intergenerational trauma, and a solitary tarantula"-- Provided by publisher.