{"title":"Home page","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"lost-in-caracas","title":"Lost in Caracas","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDoriela Mendoza learns to be needed long before she learns to be wanted. In Los Palos Grandes, Caracas, she is five years old and already rationing her good deeds, saving them up for the evenings her father comes home with his face closed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThen the country comes apart. At ten she leaves all of it: the apartment, the language, her grandmother, the version of herself that was allowed to be a child. Colombia, then Aruba, then Orlando, where four of them start again on somebody else's furniture with a case number and no answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eShe is the eldest. She has the best English. By eleven she is the one who speaks to America on her family's behalf: the forms, the appointments, the diagnoses, the bad news, in two languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLost in Caracas\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book in The Dori Trilogy, a story about the children who become the translators, and what it costs to be the one everybody can count on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Limerick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53722521338203,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9954\/0571\/files\/LostinCaracasBookCover.png?v=1785929703"},{"product_id":"love-through-service","title":"Love in Service","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDori Mendoza is sixteen and sitting in an eight o'clock college class, because forward is the only direction she has ever been shown. A law firm by twenty. Her family's translator, banker, babysitter and buffer by default. Everyone's answer, and nobody's question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThen a Dutchman she meets at an outlet mall in Orlando asks her something no one has asked her before: what does \u003cem\u003eshe\u003c\/em\u003e want?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eLoving Max means wanting something for herself for the first time, and she has no vocabulary for it. So she serves. She performs. And when the relationship starts to slip, she tells a lie, because a maybe is worth more than an answer. Then she tells it again, to her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove in Service\u003c\/em\u003e is the second book in The Dori Trilogy, a story about a woman who has only ever earned love trying to learn how to receive it. She signs a lease with one name on it. She has two months.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Limerick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53722521764187,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9954\/0571\/files\/LoveinServiceBookCover.png?v=1785930212"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.paulwlimerick.com\/collections\/frontpage.oembed","provider":"Paul W. Limerick's Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}