New York, NY, January 03, 2023 — Coming from Beck and Branch Publishers March 15, 2023.
Set in 1969, Mustang To Paducah by award-winning author Raul Ramos y Sanchez is a fast-paced and humorous tale about two Miami hippies who stumble onto multiple murders and become the prime suspects while returning a car for a tourist from Kentucky. Before long, the hapless pair are in the crosshairs of an unhinged FBI agent and a mob contract killer. The harrowing flight from their pursuers leads Nestor “Cruiser” Cruz and Maxwell “Peanut” O’Connor to reassess their lives.
Nestled slyly into this madcap road trip is the cultural awakening of two young Miami refugees, one from Cuba, the other from Georgia. Being a hippie is more a fashion statement than a lifestyle for Cruiser and Peanut, the offspring of working-class parents who, like most migrants, came to Miami seeking a better life. After venturing outside their inner-city world for the first time, the pair discover a form of hippie heresy: The flower child ethos of dropping out and going back to the land feels less like liberation and more like a step back to the hardships their parents fled in Havana and Waycross.
Called “an epic journey of the soul” by acclaimed author Jess Montgomery, Mustang To Paducah enlightens as it entertains.
