At Night We Walk in Circles

"At Night We Walk in Circles" is the breakout novel from a prizewinning young writer: a surrealistic tour de force ("O, The Oprah Magazine") about one man s obsessive search to find the truth of another man s downfall.
Nelson s life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man; his brother has left their South American country, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother; and his acting career can t seem to get off the ground. That is, until he lands a starring role in a touring revival of "The Idiot President," a legendary play by Nelson s hero, Henry Nunez, leader of the storied guerrilla theater troupe Diciembre. And that s when the real trouble begins.
Nelson s fate is slowly revealed through the investigation of the narrator, a young man obsessed with Nelson s story and perhaps closer to it than he lets on. In sharp, vivid, and beautiful prose, Alarcon delivers a compulsively readable narrative and a provocative meditation on fate, identity, and the large consequences that can result from even our smallest choices."