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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... never fails to entertain us with her encyclopedic knowledge of literature and history , whether or not we want to hear it . " Chicas , chicas , " she might say , " did you know that ancient Romans used to hang white roses from the ...
... never saw me without a book when I was growing up . As a teenager , when given the choice of going out with friends on Friday nights or staying home to read , I'd almost always choose the latter . Back then , the nineteenth - century ...
... Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that my gift for languages and ability to speak Spanish , German , and French would get me into trouble in such a tony law firm . On my way to Isabela's , I am still furious think- ing about that ...
... never thought seriously about the energy behind our thoughts , the power of desire , until I was sixteen or so . I remember I was sitting in the airport , waiting to take a plane home to Mexico from Los Angeles . I was reading a ...