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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... look up every once in a while through the large window in the living room to the woods beyond our house . Always looking beyond . Wondering what kind of life I might have if I left my shel- tered town of Prendergast , New York . And ...
... look Latina either , what with her light blue eyes and wavy red hair . I've always thought stereotypes about what looks Latin or American or European are wildly inaccurate . This goes for temperaments , too . When I studied Romance lan ...
... looks , Claire , " when I asked him for a modest increase in my low salary ? I had just been given someone else's job - coordinating assignments in the translations department of the law firm - in addition to my 19 The Sunday Tertulia.