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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... light . That's what we are , she would say with deep conviction . Moving globes finding paths through time and space . Just after I returned to New York , following that brief stay home , my sixth sense directed me in a way that would ...
... light blue eyes and wavy red hair . I've always thought stereotypes about what looks Latin or American or European are wildly inaccurate . This goes for temperaments , too . When I studied Romance lan- guages in college , most of my ...
... light behind the clouds is opalescent , heavenly . 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 ...
... light ahead of you , nothing comes to fruition . Esperanza , esper- anza , hermanas . And the saints in heaven at your side . As I listen to Luna mention saints , my mind begins to wander . I wasn't raised a Catholic and , truthfully ...