RaveThe San Francisco ChronicleThe historical novel The News From Paraguay finds its epic story in an important political crossroads for Paraguay … Like a slowly opening fan whose slats reveal themselves one by one, so do the many stories within The News From Paraguay. Tuck's omniscient narrator finds an interesting tale in just about every character and encounter. Each brief self-contained diversion – whether of Ella's maid having her broken arm amputated or a doctor's fatal spill after urinating in a lake – crystallizes the whole in miniature.
