ASIN: B00F7O4FT6
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 104
Book 2 of Lawrence's adventures, 1956 to 1958. When Lawrence is 14, his young mother Joan leaves home and husband behind in pleasant but provincial British Columbia planning to become a painter in exciting Mexico, with her children in tow. In Mexico City, Lawrence befriends Floriano, the child of a family of Spanish Civil War refugees, as well as the market children next door, and the owner of the local drugstore "El Profe", who paternally offers to escort Lawrence on his 15th birthday to a brothel so that he can become "a man", but Lawrence, terrified, refuses. With Floriano, he discovers the bullfights and becomes fluent in Spanish, awakening in him a longing to see Spain… But his mother falls in love with the half-Indian architect who designed, built and owns the futuristic apartment house where they live. When her landlord-lover is forced by his family to marry a wealthy and ...
