Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
After losing their mother and wife, a young father and his kid decided to take a road trip. The two, who are grieving together, travel to her ancestral home, where they must face the dreadful legacy she has left behind: a family known as the Order, which engages in unspeakable deeds in an effort to attain immortality.
The son Gaspar’s fate is to join this insane sect. He flees with his father in an effort to escape a strong clan that will stop at nothing to guarantee its own survival while the Order tries to draw him into their darkness. How far, though, will Gaspar’s father go to safeguard his kid? And is there any hope for a happy ending?
Our Share of Night is an unmatched tale on the intricacies of love and desire with LGBT subplots and themes. It jumps back and forth in time from London in the swinging 1960s to the terrible years of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its volatile aftermath.
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
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At this early stage of the book, Juan, the main character, issues a warning to everyone. Gaspar, his recently orphaned son, is being warned not to expect love from him because he is not a caring parent. He is admonishing him that his warning is all he will ever have again and that his life is going to alter in terrible and unavoidable ways.
There is no such thing as friendship or family loyalty as we know it, and violence can come from any unusual source and be directed at any unlikely target. None of the characters will act as we would expect them to. Juan declares, “We’re not going back,” but what he really means is that there is only one way out—through.
