So Far from God - by Ana Castillo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the American Book Award-winning author of "The Mixquiahuala Letters" comes the story of a remarkable woman and her four daughters living in New Mexico--a novel shaped by influences as diverse as Mexican mythology, Catholicism, and today's headlines.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love in the sleepy New Mexico hamlet of Tome, a town teeming with marvels where the comic and the horrific, the real and the supernatural, reside.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Ana Castillo is immensely insightful in every sense of the word...A writer with enormous integrity, with common sense and lyric sense, yet one who passes back and forth between more than one psychic world...and is able to bring back what she has seen and sensed into the land of her intense and beautifully crafted writing.--Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., author of Women Who Run with the Wolves<br><br>Castillo is simply dazzling, tossing off miracles, scathing social commentary, and smart-ass humor as easily and naturally as shaking water from a mane of wet hair.<br><br>Exciting and wonderful! I gave it to my mother, my sister, my daughter, my whole family. Anybody who's ever been the daughter of a mother will appreciate this book.--Ntozake Shange, author of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf<br><br>While reading, you may get an eerie feeling that you are 12 years old and back in your grandmother's kitchen smelling all those wonderful smells and hearing all her curious stories.<br><br>Exuberant and slangy...a chili mix of the conversational and poetic...haunting...profound...powerful.<br>
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