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Though Sara Jane Santos has lived in Spain for over a decade, she knows little about the city. Through years of solitary confinement, she dreamt of her old life among the Garifuna people in Guatemala. Now free, she must forge a new life in a 1980s newly-democratized Madrid, where the culture is redefining itself through reckless provocation and dangerous defiance.

For nineteen-year-old Seth Moreau, Madrid is a stop along the way to punk rock stardom, if not an escape from the unseemly events that drove him out of New York City. While Seth’s immediate entanglement with a rogue Spanish officer goes against everything his art stands for, his liaison with Sara Jane Santos may bring redemption. Yet, when Sara Jane begins to display signs of a violent mental illness brought about by the ghosts of her own past, Seth must decide once more if he will flee tribulation.

Pulling no punches in her exploration of abuse, race, mental illness, and police brutality, E.P. Tyler brilliantly weaves together a riveting tale of what fruit the fertile ground of suffering and adversity may produce in her stunning debut CIGARETTE SAINTS.