The Sunday Tertulia: A Novel“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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... Americans and Latinos , and , also , my beautiful Latin American / Latina 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 ...
... American college professors , aristo- cratic in their bearing and maternal in their concern for their students . The others offered courteous introduc- tions , too , all the while nodding their hat 8 Lori Marie Carlson.
... American or European are wildly inaccurate . This goes for temperaments , too . When I studied Romance lan- guages in college , most of my classmates were much like me , distinctly North American but possessed by more Latin fire than ...
... American group . A retired pharmacist , Isabela , I soon discovered , was known in professional and social circles as " a mover and a shaker . " She knew people in every corner of the city and seemed to have made friends with everyone ...