Born under strange circumstances to a high-society teenager and a pentagenarian Perpendicular Lives opens in 1930s Guadalajara, but...
entrepreneur, Jer?nimo Rodriguez Loera is off to an inauspicious start--then things get worse.
Through an assemblage of records, letters, and firsthand testimony of Jer?nimo's past lives,
?lvaro Enrigue creates a rich, observant, and dryly humorous account of class and clashing in
Mexican society.