The Matter of Desire

“A Bolivian professor probes the depths of his rebel father’s past in this taut, gritty tale of two dramatically different Americas” ( Booklist ). The Matter of Desire is the story of Pedro, a Bolivian-American political scientist who teaches at a university in upstate New York. Having become entangled in an erotically charged romance with Ashley, a beautiful red-headed graduate student, he returns to Bolivia to seek answers to his own life by investigating the mysteries of his father’s past. Tr