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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... about female friendships and the trials that life brings to us . . . . [ It ] captures those special feelings that stem from being with and trusting close friends . " -Booklist " A surprise bouquet of provocative lilacs . . .
A Novel Lori Marie Carlson. For my mother , Marie Elaine Carlson , and my friend , Beatriz López - Pritchard Who said that a room of one's own was enough.
... 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 by Ida ( Stevenson ) Weldon Vernon ...
... friends on Friday nights or staying home to read , I'd almost always choose the latter . Back then , the nineteenth - century British writers were my favorites . I adored Thomas Hardy . Absorbed in tales of moors and mysterious castles ...
... friend in college , Lucy , a warm and spirited Mexican , respected my faith in the magnetic force of destiny . She used to have similar feelings about being able to intuit one's direction in life . She once told me that the human body ...