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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... listen while I watch her drink a cup of very sweet - four teaspoons full of sugar - café con leche and I lean back in the rocking chair , listening and thinking . Soon enough whatever bothered me when I entered her apartment 12 Lori ...
... 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 él nos ...
... listen to Luna mention saints , my mind begins to wander . I wasn't raised a Catholic and , truthfully , all that talk about little painted statues enveloped in a gilded light seems odd to me . And there are way too many of them . How ...