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The women in Juan Rodriguez Perez's narrative are mothers, wise old women, neighbors, and subjects of love and desire. The other characters surround them: kids who become men, young men growing up in the drama of adulthood, and adults who give up on life while the women continue to maintain the world. These women are converted into main characters facing the two biggest problems that plagued the San Martín Region in Peru: armed subversion and drug trafficking. Set in a small town in the jungle, a Peruvian version of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, these are authentic stories that submerge the reader in nostalgia, developing sometimes bloodily and other times as if by destiny. There is no happy ending, only development within a period of history still hard to understand.

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"""Woman of the Old Roads is the kind of book people are looking for when they say they are in search of authentic storytelling. This is not a work that has been appropriated and reshaped into a form that is more pleasing to any entitled community. Unless you've shared the experience of Amazon life, you'll find the actions and beliefs of the characters of this book foreign and unexpected. But at the same time you'll encounter a profound sense that something true about the human experience has been captured within its pages."" --Walter Rhein, Streets of Lima"

Woman of the Old Roads is the kind of book people are looking for when they say they are in search of authentic storytelling. This is not a work that has been appropriated and reshaped into a form that is more pleasing to any entitled community. Unless you've shared the experience of Amazon life, you'll find the actions and beliefs of the characters of this book foreign and unexpected. But at the same time you'll encounter a profound sense that something true about the human experience has been captured within its pages. --Walter Rhein, Streets of Lima

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Juan Rodríguez Pérez was born in Sauce in 1952, in the San Martín Region of Peru. He is a Peruvian writer of short novels. He studied sociology at the National University of San Marcos. Pérez's work is notable for its themes about the Peruvian Amazon. He currently lives in Lima where he continues to write. Joey Carney is a writer and translator. He was born in Springfield, MO, studied language and literature at Portland State University, and education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He currently lives in Lima, Peru where he continues to write, teaches, and manages a small press.

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