Jaguar Paloma and the Caketown Bar
Jaguar Paloma and the Caketown Bar
by Jess Wells
Genre: Magical Realism, Historical Fiction
In 1865 in the shanty town of Tartatenango, the Caketown Bar is owned by the extraordinary Jaguar Paloma, matriarch of a village that is home to raucous miscreants, cast-off mothers, muleteers, and forgers. Amid drunken monks, a roaring trade in faked marriages just for fun, and the Romani, all balance on the knife-edge between legality and the illicit. Paloma’s life is honed by this community, as their lives are affected by her mystery and magic.
Co-founder of this extraordinary gathering is Orietta Becerra. Breathtakingly beautiful and ambitious, her distillery builds the success of Caketown. But when she crosses the tracks and marries the town’s mayor, her double life severs her friendship with Paloma and the town starts to pay the highest of prices.
Adding to this land of chaos and feminine power is a forger, a murderer, the darker shade of the female heart, and a Civil War that claims men before their time.
Caketown – men want to destroy it. Women want to play in it. The township itself has to fight on all sides to survive.
Told in evocative magical realism, Jaguar Paloma and the Caketown Bar is a tale of wronged women who stand up to be counted.
Jess Wells is the author of six novels and five books of short stories, winner of the Bronze Medal in the 2020 Foreword Reviews Indies Award for Adult Fiction/Romance, the recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Grant for Literature, a four-time finalist for the national Lambda Literary Award, and a member of the Saints & Sinners Literary Hall of Fame. Her work has appeared in more than three dozen literary journals and anthologies, has been reprinted in England and translated into Italian and Dutch.
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This sounds really good.
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ReplyDeleteThis looks pretty fascinating. I would love to have read an excerpt.
ReplyDeleteJess here. Great! Would love you to read an excerpt. Here's a link: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/fwfrb41ela
DeleteHi there. I would love to offer you an excerpt here: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/fwfrb41ela Thanks so much for your interest in the book! - Jess
DeleteThis has such a unique cover. Love it. I really enjoy stories in this time period.
ReplyDeleteJess, I love the different looking cover and the story sounds like a thrilling read! Thanks for brining it to my attention and have a wonderful weekend!
ReplyDeleteThe cover is extraordinary. It does make me want to know more.
ReplyDeleteI love the cover. It sets the tone for the book.
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