From whiskey priests and crazed conquistadors to sun-maddened tourists, stories of white exile in South America are staples of Western literature and film. Such tropes are productively complicated in an outstanding début novel by Rachel Morton.
The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton
University of Queensland Press, $34.99 pb, 224 pp
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