John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memoryAs we grow oldermost of all in what we remember and what we dreamwe live in the past Sometimes we live more vividly in the past than in the present As an older man Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines but what travels with him are his dreams and memories he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico An aura of fate had marked him John Irving writes of Juan Diego The chain of events the links in our liveswhat leads us where were going the courses we follow to our ends what we dont see coming and what we doall this can be mysterious or simply unseen or even obvious Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines where what happened to him in the pastin Mexicocollides with his future.
