Both women bear sons, and a remorseful Marta tells her sister about the curse, which she claims to have had removed by la curandera , the healer. When 15-year-old Marta is raped and becomes pregnant, seemingly barren Chayo and her husband, Candelario, agree to take the child. As in Like Water for Chocolate , this novel sympathetically explores
| Title | : | A Place Where the Sea Remembers |
| Author | : | Sandra Benitez |
| Rating | : | 4.95 (476 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 156689011X |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 160Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-3-9 |
| Language | : | English |
Both women bear sons, and a remorseful Marta tells her sister about the curse, which she claims to have had removed by la curandera , the healer. When 15-year-old Marta is raped and becomes pregnant, seemingly barren Chayo and her husband, Candelario, agree to take the child. As in Like Water for Chocolate , this novel sympathetically explores the lives of Mexican women caught in a mystical, fatalistic world. From Publishers Weekly Latina writer Benitez begins her excellent debut novel with a painful event--the wait for a drowned body to float to shore--and works backwards, retracing the myriad, seemingly insignificant steps that led to the character's death. But when Chayo's son almost dies after
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