Ticking clocks and tolling bells, scents of roses and warm tortillas: this is the barrio of years past as captured in the words of Patricia Preciado Martin. Cuentos, recuerdos, stories, memories--all are stirred into a simmering caldo by a writer whose love for her heritage shines through every page.Reminiscent of Like Water for Chocolate, the book is a rich mix of the simplest ingredients--food, family, tradition. We see Silviana striding to her chicken coop, triggering the "feathered pandemonium" of chickens who ...
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Ticking clocks and tolling bells, scents of roses and warm tortillas: this is the barrio of years past as captured in the words of Patricia Preciado Martin. Cuentos, recuerdos, stories, memories--all are stirred into a simmering caldo by a writer whose love for her heritage shines through every page.Reminiscent of Like Water for Chocolate, the book is a rich mix of the simplest ingredients--food, family, tradition. We see Silviana striding to her chicken coop, triggering the "feathered pandemonium" of chickens who smell death in the air. We meet Elena, standing before the mirror in her wedding dress, and Teodoro Sanchez, who sleeps under the sky and smells of "chaparral and mesquite pollen and the stream bottom and the bone dust of generations.There's the monsignor sitting on the edge of a sofa, sipping Nescafe from a china cup, and here is Sister Francisca "with her warm, minty breath" warning us away from impure thoughts. Be on your best behavior, too, in Tia Petra's Edwardian parlor--la Dona Petrita, descended from conquistadores, might just deliver a tap on your head with her silver-handled walking stick. Then, with Mamacita, spend a summer afternoon bent over your embroidery with trembling hand and sweaty upper lip, and all the while wondering what in the world it feels like to be kissed.Intermingled with the author's stories are collective memories of the barrio, tales halfway between heaven and earth that seem to connect barrio residents to each other and to their past. These cuentos are mystical and dreamy, peopled with ghosts and miracles and Aztec princesses dressed in feathers and gold.Come, sit down and have some salsa and a tortilla--fresh and homemade, it goes without saying; people who buy tortillas at the market "might as well move to Los Angeles, for they have already lost their souls." Then open the pages of this book. Help yourself to another feast of food and flowers, music and dancing, sunshine and moonlight--everything glorious and mundane, serious and humorous, earthly and spiritual, poignant and joyful, in la vida mexicoamericana.
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Add this copy of El Milagro: and Other Stories to cart. $6.50, good condition, Sold by Bookmarc's rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Porte, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by University of Arizona Press.
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Good in Good jacket. CE3-A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with the dust jacket mylar sleeve endflaps are glued to the front and back fixed endpapers, and the back free endpaper plus there are the usual library stamps, labels, and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the copyright page, and the back free endpaper. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with a library label on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus the front and back mylar sleeve endflaps are glued to the fixed endpapers. A collection of short stories by a noted Arizona Mexican-American writer of both nonfiction and fiction. By the author of "Songs My Mother Sant to Me" and "Days of Plenty, Days of Want." About the author, 93p.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Fine, Fine. Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 92 p. Camino del Sol: A Latina and Latino Literary (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. Very clean, unmarked book in beautiful condition.
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