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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... Better than any psychoanalysis , The Sunday Tertulia shows how women can cure any soul ailment by giving each other sound advice , especially if it comes from the ancient voice of the earth , the one Latinas know well . " -Elena ...
... opened the door . My editor , Julia Sere- brinsky , took me many steps further , allowing for better perspective . My work has been influenced by them all . Preface Every month or so on Sunday afternoon , Isabela X Acknowledgments.
... better . There is Aroma , a world traveler who happens to be an excellent gynecologist and Mexican down to her purple - polished toenails . And the brainy Sonia , an Argentine by birth , who never fails to entertain us with her ...
... better listen carefully , because a whole lot of living has become the music of their spirit . And the rhythm is good , as powerful as cante jondo . As Isabela so often says to me and everyone she meets , " En el camino andamos , y en ...