Tag: mexico
Swift as Desire
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/09/07/swift-as-desire/
Title: Swift as Desire Author: Laura Esquivel Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, August 2002 Summary: Swift as Desire focuses on Lluvia, a middle aged mother desperately trying to replay her entire life in order to understand her parents’ mutual anger for one another. Júbilo, her...
The Hummingbird’s Daughter
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/04/13/the-hummingbirds-daughter/
Title: The Hummingbird’s Daughter Author: Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher: Little, Brown, May 2005 Summary: Set in the late 1800’s- early 1900’s, the book follows Teresita, a young girl in Mexico who has been abandoned by her poverty-stricken farm hand mother and given to her abusive aunt...
Into the Beautiful North
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/08/26/into-the-beautiful-north-2/
Title: Into the Beautiful North Author: Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, May 2009 Summary: This book was deliciously lyrical and why would you expect anything less than this from the author of the widely acclaimed novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter and 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist...