Cucarachananda

These are the picaresque adventures of a Costa Rican simpleton who grows in wisdom at each stage of his life, and who ends up in the States where he has a chance to take revenge on the crook he once worshipped in jail. An undercurrent in the novel is the possibility that he may have the potential to heal others. He shies away from this, especially when others try to exploit him. In his rather saintly heart he doesn