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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... everything . Our lunch is basic fare : a hearty arroz con pollo or some other Caribbean chicken and rice dish , accompanied by red beans , yucca in garlic oil , lemony avocado salad , and dessert . Although the food is good , the ...
... everything will turn out fine , " says Isabela , as the room around me seems to swim in tears , my own . Some- times I am worried about a member of my family or upset about some guy I've dated , and usually I can't scrape together the ...
... Everything in the city comes back to life in autumn , and that includes the tertulias in Isabela's apartment . This is the first one of the season , and after so much traveling in August , we are anxious to catch up . I'm the only one ...
... everything I do . That's all and enough . I think of all gifts the good Lord gave women , nothing , absolutely nothing , can take the place of esperanza . Hope . ¿ Sabes ? When I was a young woman , Claire's age , there were so many ...
... everything seemed to be going wrong . It looked like my parents would be separating . I had few friends in the private school I was attending . I didn't care for my teachers . And because I felt so little support around me , I had ...