Caramelo

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A glorious book, Caramelo is crowded with the souvenirs and memories of the dramas of everyday life like an oversized family album, inti-
mate as well as universal."
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VERY YEAR, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family-aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers—packs up three cars and, In a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house In Mexico City for the summer. Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothers and to understand her place on this side of the border and that, Lala Is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she starts telling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to how she got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating. Soon, a multlgenerational family narrative turns Into a whirlwind exploration of storytelling, lies, and life. Like the cherished rebozo, or shawl, that has been passed down through generations of Reyes women, Caramelo is alive with the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

¦.-F-;JSç
A glorious book, Caramelo is crowded with the souvenirs and memories of the dramas of everyday life like an oversized family album, inti-
mate as well as universal."
cr^
m
VERY YEAR, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family-aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers—packs up three cars and, In a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house In Mexico City for the summer. Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothers and to understand her place on this side of the border and that, Lala Is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she starts telling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to how she got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating. Soon, a multlgenerational family narrative turns Into a whirlwind exploration of storytelling, lies, and life. Like the cherished rebozo, or shawl, that has been passed down through generations of Reyes women, Caramelo is alive with the vibrations of history, family, and love.
"its characters leap from the page____Like Eduardo Galeano, John Dos
Passos and John Steinbeck, CIsneros writes along the borders where the novel and social history intersect. In this lovingly told and poetic novel, she uses the storytelling art to give the voiceless ones a voice, and to find the border to the past, imbuing the struggles of her family and her countries with the richness of myth."
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