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By Christopher Rees

The airborne dirt and dust in Sunlight is a hybrid compilation - half memoir, half fiction - of tourists' stories through new author Christopher Rees that run the gamut from modern social realism and globalism to mystical realism. those deeply reflective tales - commonly advised in the course of the eyes of the peripatetic Daniel Lookfar - span a number of international locations and continents; Afghanistan, France, Guatemala, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and the us. during this exciting assortment, Rees illuminates how politics, wealth, heritage, migration, and tradition impression human interactions to create destiny. From the leafy middle of a wooded area within the south of France, to cornfields within the Dominican Republic, to the dusty expanse of Afghanistan, The dirt in Sunlight reveals worlds right now international and typical, with unforgettable characterizations and frank observations of human behavior.

The stories:

In 'Shoes,' Rees explores the symbiotic courting among viewers to the small group of Olancho and its population. besides the traveler's feel of dislocation, language, wealth, and the prestige of the outsider all play a component in what arises whilst the 1st international meets the constructing international - each one hoping the grass is greener at the different side. As one reviewer hints, Shoes should be required interpreting for all those that shuttle to the 3rd global, and for all these within the 3rd global who think tourists from the 1st are a price tag to a greater life.

In 'The Peanut Man' we discover a mild strength of nature, a curious emanation of simple attractiveness and calmness originating within the determine of a humble Guatemalan peanut vendor, spending his days below the tough principal American sun.

'Rock Steady' is a novel tale, an enigmatic story set in France that conveys an undercurrent of mysticism and a shamanic fascination with sacred areas and mysterious forces.

'The Caseta Pepsi' tells of 'dreams come precise' opposed to the backdrop of a small snack bar on the foot of the Rio Dulce bridge. The naïve hopes of its vendors and the ironies in their adventure are visible via a convergence of viewpoints, because the spiraling narrative leads the reader on a trip to the guts of paradise in a Mayan village.

'Thank God it is Raining' tells the tale of an archetypally solid, basic, subsistence farmer and his hot, companionable, hardworking spouse; their love for the land and their religion persist within the face of adversity.

'The Rinse Bowl on the Mexican Dentista' recounts an event, without delay painful and humorous, that happens at a dentist's place of work in a dreamlike, late-20C, vaguely mythic Mexico.

These and different tales shape the interesting composite of tourists' stories that make up The dirt in Sunlight.

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