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De todos los gobiernos de izquierda que pasaron por América Latina en los últimos años, el de Venezuela es el que intentó llevar adelante el cambio más radical... y también el que fracasó más radicalmente. Este libro cuenta el proceso de declive de la Revolución Bolivariana desde diferentes ángulos: una crisis económica inédita en la historia del capitalismo, que redujo el PBI a un cuarto de lo que era y expulsó a siete millones de personas; una catástrofe social que convirtió al país del Socialismo del siglo XXI en uno de los más desiguales de la región, y un giro autoritario que hizo que Venezuela se transformara en un régimen que no es una democracia, pero tampoco una dictadura plena: una criatura política única. Mezcla de ensayo, relato de viaje y crónica periodística, este libro analiza las múltiples crisis de un país que pasó de ser un faro ideológico para la izquierda al "patito feo" de América Latina. Para escribirlo, José Natanson viajó a Venezuela, subió a los cerros más pobres y visitó negocios de lujo, conversó con la gente en la calle, entrevistó a políticos y analistas. Sin prejuicios pero sin miedo a la polémica, responde algunas preguntas cruciales: ¿Quién es el responsable de la crisis? ¿Cuánto influyó el acoso de Estados Unidos? ¿Qué peso de la culpa tiene la oposición? ¿Hasta dónde llegan las violaciones a los derechos humanos? ¿Chávez y Maduro son lo mismo? Y, en definitiva: ¿Qué pasó con Venezuela?

Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love. In 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily. He can't shake the sense she's hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than it provides answers. In immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home. Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made? And if we are made, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?

When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in 2011, her estranged dad, Ethan, seems like the furthest thing from her mind. A convicted felon and recovering addict, Ethan has always struggled to see past himself. But then a call from his ex makes him fear their daughter's in deeper trouble than anyone realizes. Believing he's the only one who can save her, he decides to return to New York with a gift: the whole of his life, its hard-won triumphs and harrowing mistakes . . . So begins the intimate epic of Jolie and Ethan: child and adult, apart and together, different yet the same. Their journey toward each other will face opposition from grandparents and siblings and friends. It will strain connections with roommates and benefactors and a probation officer desperate to help. It will push Jolie out past her depth with a mysterious admirer, and Ethan in over his head with his first love, Jolie's mom. But as father and daughter struggle to find their footing, new vistas beckon: from a surf break in mid-'90s Delaware to group therapy during the great recession, from an encampment at Occupy Wall Street to a HoJo on Maryland's Eastern Shore, from the heights of the Brooklyn Bridge to horizons seldom seen in fiction.