Lorea Canales is a lawyer, journalist, translator, and critically acclaimed novelist. One of the first Mexican women admitted to Georgetown Law, Canales worked in antitrust and electoral law in Washington, DC, and Mexico before joining the newspaper Reforma as a legal correspondent. Since then, Canales has taught law at Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, edited for the New York Times Syndicate in its Spanish news service, and worked for Felipe Calderon s presidential campaign in Mexico. In 2010, Canales received a master s in creative writing from New York University. She published her novel Apenas Marta (Hardly Marta) in 2011 and Los perros (The Dogs) in 2013. Canales currently lives in New York.
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Thanks to her wealthy and well-connected family, twenty-six-year-old Marta is used to getting whatever she wants. And what she wants is a good time. That is, until her father’s wife—the woman who raised her—becomes ill. Beautiful youn... SEE MORE