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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... once a year . Whether with regulars or occasional visitors , the conversation circles around the same beguiling topic : the wonderful , confounding , and difficult aspects of life . Nuestra vida . Steering our conversation through ...
... once in a while through the large window in the living room to the woods beyond our house . Always looking beyond . Wondering what kind of life I might have if I left my shel- tered town of Prendergast , New York . And this is how I ...
... 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 , carved out of vision and desire . Then there was another auspicious coinci ...
... once told me that the human body does not end at its extremities ; it ends with agitated energy , a few inches from the corpo- real frame . Fields of light . That's what we are , she would say with deep conviction . Moving globes ...
... once to her . The next thing I knew I was moving into a surprisingly affordable one - bedroom with parquet floors and fleur de lis molding around the ceilings - owned by yet another friend of hers and rented to me as a favor . Weeks of ...