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Martín Silva de Choc, childhood survivor of an army massacre during the Guatemalan civil war, and now a language-school teacher in Guatemala City, falls in love with his American student, Abby, and follows her home to Chicago on a fiancé visa. Days before their wedding, however, Abby goes missing, and on a Halloween afternoon Martîn embarks on a search that leads from the ghost-strewn yards of Chicagos North Side to the Lincoln Park Conservatoryand ultimately back to his violent past. A story about repressed secrets and the limits of love, Day of All Saints traces the effects of historical trauma on individual lives.
About the author
Patricia Grace King grew up in North Carolina and has since lived in Atlanta, Chicago, and Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, as well as in Spain, Guatemala, and the UK. She is the author of two chapbooks,
Rubia (The Florida Review) and
The Death of Carrie Bradshaw (Kore Press); her short stories have been published by
Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Narrative Magazine, and
Nimrod. She was the 2013-2014 Carol Houck Smith Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and now lives in Durham, England, where she is finishing a novel as well as a story collection, and writes the biweekly blog,
Wuthering Yankee.
