A Place Where the Sea Remembers
✍ Scribed by Sandra Benítez
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Year
- 2011;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 93 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1566892848
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✦ Synopsis
Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Fiction
Winner of the Barnes&Noble; Discover Award for Fiction
Member of the National Writer's Voice Project
Finalist Los Angeles Times Book Award
"Vivid, graceful, tautly constructed...the reader will feel the grasp of a splendid new storyteller." -Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried
In A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Sandra Benitez invites us into a mesmerizing world filled with, love and betrayal, tragedy and hope. This rich and bewitching story is a bittersweet portrait of the people in Santiago, a Mexican village by the sea. Chayo, the flower seller, and her husband Candelario, the salad maker, are finally blessed with the child they thought they would never have. Their cause for happiness, however, triggers a chain of events that impact the lives of everyone in their world.
The hopes, triumphs, failures, and shortcomings of the novel's enchanting array of characters create a graceful....
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