When Franco hatches a violent, chilling plan, Polo goes along with it, (supposedly) thinking it’s just talk: “That’s why Polo played along, that’s why he nodded away to everything that fatty said, as insane, as preposterous as it was how the fuck was he supposed to know what the crazy prick would be capable of doing in order to bone that bitch. This obsession, however, escalates drastically. He reluctantly befriends Franco, whose access to booze offers him an escape from his home life, where, according to him, he can’t catch a break from his mother and his pregnant “slut of a cousin.”Įxhibiting all the qualities of a classic “incel,” Franco is obsessed with his neighbor, Señora Marián, mother to two boys and wife of a well-known television personality he masturbates to her obsessively, filthy fingers coasted in a film of cheese dust. The other, Polo, has dropped out of high school and works at Paradise as a gardener to make ends meet. “fatboy,” is addicted to porn, looks like an “overfed cherub,” and lives with his rich grandparents in the development. Inside Paradise are two teenage boys, unlikely companions brought together by desperation and loneliness, binge-drinking by the river night after night. Paradise is a wealthy, gated housing development in Mexico. Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes
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