Pistaco: A Tale of Love in the Andes by Lynn F Monahan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Pistaco is a tale of a conflicted young American priest called to the high Andes, where he finds both love and death in the height of the Maoist Shining Path uprising. Pistaco is billed as a thriller, and it is, both a political thriller and a supernatural horror story. It reads more like literary fiction, however, and the deliberate pace with its wealth of detail is lovely. Excellent fiction debut from a writer I expect we'll hear more from.


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2017 List:

7. Pistaco, Lynn Monahan
6. To the Bright Edge of the World, Eowyn Ivey
5. A Conjuring of Light, V.E. Schwab
2-4.. Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree, Mississippi Blood, Greg Iles
1. All the Things I Never Told You, Celeste Ng