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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... someone else's 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 ...
... , " when I asked him for a modest increase in my low salary ? I had just been given someone else's job - coordinating assignments in the translations department of the law firm - in addition to my 19 The Sunday Tertulia.
... someone I knew socially , not so well but well enough , who had a terrible case of arthritis . It had penetrated her hips , her feet , and her hands . Her fingers were swollen and gnarled like , well , how would I describe them ... like ...