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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... Tertulia shows how women can cure any soul ailment by giving each other sound advice , especially if it comes from the ancient voice of the earth , the one Latinas know well ... Tertulia The Sunday Tertulia Lori Marie Carlson Perennial.
A Novel Lori Marie Carlson. The Sunday Tertulia Lori Marie Carlson Perennial An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers This One 72NG - COD - DTZU Marjorie Agosín's poem " Vanilla , " translated from the.
... TERTULIA . Copyright © 2000 by Lori Marie Carlson . All rights reserved . Printed in the United States of America . No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of ...
... a room of one's own was enough ? Why not enchanted gardens , palaces of memory , houses of language ? -MARJORIE AGOSÍN , Lluvia en el desierto ( Rain in the Desert ) Acknowledgments The inspiration for my novel has been the tertulia.
A Novel Lori Marie Carlson. Acknowledgments The inspiration for my novel has been the tertulia , which is a cultural tradition among Spaniards , Latin Americans and Latinos , and , also , my beautiful Latin American / Latina friends . My ...