ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eric Sean Rawson lives and teaches in Southern California. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous places, including Slate, Commonweal, Ploughshares, Agni, and Stories. He is the author of The Hummingbird Hour, Expo, and American Subcultures, in addition to his new novel, Banana Republic.

ABOUT THE BOOK - BANANA REPUBLIC

When William Sydney Porter faces prison for embezzlement in Austin, Texas, he catches the first tramp steamer to Central America. The year is 1905. He washes up in the town of Coralio, in a country with no extradition treaty with the U.S. and a government at the mercy of American scoundrels, drunks, and robber-barons. Porter establishes himself as a newspaper printer, despite violent opposition from the most powerful individual in the country—Walter Whitaker, the president of the Vesuvius Fruit Company, who sees Porter's newspaper as a threat to his plans to overthrow the government and install a puppet who will give him concessions to build a railroad to the new Panama Canal. Banana Republic is a comic tale of greed, ambition, and gunboat diplomacy.

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