The Sunday Tertulia: A NovelHarper Collins, 26/05/2009 - 224 páginas “Heartfelt, intelligent. . . imagine Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club crossed with Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate. . . . Carlson’s love and appreciation for Latin cadences and culture comes though on every page.” — Los Angeles Times Claire is a young, struggling New Yorker whose understanding of life is enriched after a group of older and wiser Latina women bring her into a close-knit circle: their Upper West Side tertulia. Once a month, they come together for a Sunday afternoon of revelry, at which delicious food and strong opinions are served up in equal measure. Through their recollections and counsel, Claire comes to know the colorful, exotic, and sometimes contradictory attitudes that informed these women's lives. She begins to see her own challenges through a prism more poetic and worldly. Humorous and bittersweet, The Sunday Tertulia brings to life cherished Latin traditions and celebrates women's wisdom and spirituality. |
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... beautiful Latin American / Latina friends . My portraits of Pedro de Valdivia and Inés de Suarez are shaded by fantasy , but the story takes its cue from the very finely researched history , Pedro de Valdivia : Conquista- dor de Chile ...
... beautiful , almost religious breakthrough for me - maybe for them , too - that we could have such camaraderie even though we did not share the same cultural heritage . Much more important , we simply got along . We were women , 10 first ...
... beautiful than an afternoon in mid - September , when the sky is the color of lavender and the light behind the clouds is opalescent , heavenly . Everything in the city comes back to life in autumn , and that includes the tertulias in ...