Paradais. One calls it "gloriously dark

One calls it "gloriously dark

Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad

leaving a mystery in its place

with families and feelings and bodies that could break

And then violently

Paradais. One calls it "gloriously darkInside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor an attractive married woman and mother while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he