Shiva by J H Brennan

Shiva by J H Brennan

A humorous, smartly written page-turner that will keep the reader up late at night reading. The year is 1991. The setting, an orphanage on a river in Central America. The protagonist, Eleanor Abernathy, chaste and working on learning to speak Spanish fluently, had been traveling around Mexico and Central America attending language schools. School, unsatisfying, Eleanor volunteers to work in an orphanage. A place full of vibrant characters, absurdity, love, murder, and beguilement. An acute psychological novel narrated primarily by Eleanor's inspections, and her keen eye for the ironic. The reader will end the book with a better understanding of human nature and themselves.