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Name: Juan Martinez - Extended Stay (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 1.21 MB

Title: Extended Stay
Author: Juan Martinez
Language: English
Year: 2023
Subjects: FIC009060 FICTION / Fantasy / Urban, FIC056000 FICTION / Hispanic & Latino, FIC015000 FICTION / Horror
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: N/A
Total pages: N/A

In a rundown neighborhood in the heart of Las Vegas, the Alicia hotel awakens and beckons to the most vulnerable-those with something to hide.

After his parents are killed in a horrific roadside execution, Alvaro flees his home in Colombia and finds work as a line cook at the seedy hotel. Together with his sister, Carmen, he begins to make a new life in the desert, earning a promotion to management along with an irresistible offer to stay at the hotel rent-free. But as beloved photographs go missing, cockroaches seep from the walls, and grotesque strangers wander the corridors, the promise of the Alicia decays into nightmare. Alvaro discovers that the hotel is a small appendage of an enormous creature that feeds on guests and their secrets, one that will eventually bring him face-to-face with the memories he most wants to outrun. Alvaro, Carmen, and their friends decide to cooperate with the creature rather than fight it. But in their efforts to appease it, do...