Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall Contemporary Fiction When the Going Was Good

When the Going Was Good perfectly captures the last golden age of print magazines from the inside out

A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America

regardless of genre or style ― LA TimesNobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does

But as she spends time with him and his gruff mask slips

With the two men tormented by demons of their own

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall Contemporary Fiction When the Going Was GoodEveryone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel's return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can't help thinking they were right. Beth was seventeen when she first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She thought it was the start of her great love story. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken. It was Frank