Tropicalia Av Harold Rogers

<p>Daniel Cunha has a lot on his mind.<br><br> He got dumped by his pregnant girlfriend, his grandfather just dropped dead, and on the anniversary of the raid that doomed his drug-dealing aunt and uncle, his mother makes her unwanted return, years after she fled to marry another American fool like his father.<br><br> Misfortune, however, is a Cunha family affair, and no generation is spared. Not Daniel''s grandfather Jo¿poor Jo¿born to a prostitute and forced to raise his siblings while still a child himself. Not Jo¿'s wife, Marta, branded as a <i>bruxa</i>, reviled by her mother, and dragged from her home by her scheming daughter, Maria. And certainly not Maria, so envious of her younger sister''s beauty and benevolence that she took her vicious revenge and fled to the States, abandoning her children: Daniel and Lucia, both tainted now by their half-Americanness and their mother''s greedy absence.<br><br> There''s poison in the Cunha blood. They are a family cursed, condemned to the p