Orlando Ortega-Medina
Orlando Ortega-Medina is a London-based author and lawyer. His collection of short stories, Jerusalem Ablaze, published in 2017, was shortlisted for the UK’s Polari First Book and established him as a talented storyteller. Following this success, Ortega-Medina went on to release a series of gripping novels, including The Death of Baseball in 2019, The Savior of 6th Street in 2020, and The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants in 2023. His upcoming novel, Emerald Road, is highly anticipated and is set to be published in North America by Amble Press in January 2015.
The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants
Orlando Ortega-Medina
Award-winning author and immigration attorney Orlando Ortega-Medina returns to 1990s San Francisco in The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants, a powerful family drama that plays out within a captivating legal thriller.
Attorney Marc Mendes, the estranged son of a prominent rabbi and a burned-out lawyer with addiction issues, plots his exit from the big city to a more peaceful life in idyllic Napa Valley. But before he can realize his dream, the US government summons his Salvadoran life-partner Isaac Perez to immigration court, threatening him with deportation.
As Marc battles to save Isaac, his world is further upended by a dark and alluring client, who aims to tempt him away from his messy life. Torn between his commitment to Isaac and the pain-numbing escapism offered by his client, Marc is forced to choose between the lesser of two evils while confronting his twin demons of past addiction and guilt over the death of his first lover.
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