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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... apartment on Manhat- tan's Upper West Side . A tertulia , by nature , involves a lot of thinking out loud about everything . Our lunch is basic fare : a hearty arroz con pollo or some other Caribbean chicken and rice dish , accompanied ...
... apartment . My summer sublet was a small blue studio in a brownstone that had once been Alma Mahler's . A neighbor told me so one day as she was walking by . I thought it was a happy omen , suggesting that my life could be extraordinary ...
... apartment for tea and cake , sometimes a glass of Santa Catalina wine . Then , toward the end of summer , she asked me to her Sunday lunch tertulia , the inner sanctum of her social life . The women , all of whom I'd first met in the ...
... 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 Marie Carlson.
A Novel Lori Marie Carlson. Soon enough whatever bothered me when I entered her apartment is forgotten . That is why we all come to her sun - drenched , book- filled home . It is a place of genuine humor , serenity , and affection ...