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Santiago And The Drinking Party, Clay Morgan

Clay Morgan

Meet Daniel Cooper, a young American searching for a way to escape the predictability of life in the United States. Lured by wanderlust, Daniel travels to the Amazonian village of Los Puentes Caidos - a seductive hamlet of magical realities where human nature, Mother Nature, and the nature of truth converge in tropical excess.

There, old Santiago, a philosophic seeker, has formed his Drinking and Thinking Club. This curious "Thinkery" includes a skeptical war veteran, a noble dwarf, a far-seeing blind man, and assorted other questioners who spend their time drinking beer, sucking lemons, and reflecting - quite imaginatively and …