National Book Award for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
Luisa Cantu is a girl from a Sierra Madre mountain village. After being impregnated in a fertility ritual of ancient ofigin, she leaves Mexico to work in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as a housemaid for Mrs. Eddie Hatch, a woman with a strong will and a narrow worldview. Their complex relationship-by turns mystical and pragmnatic, serious and comic-reveals the many ways human beings can wound one another, the nautre of love and sacrifice, and the possibility of forgiveness.
The River Beyond the World is a 1996 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Genre: Literary Fiction
The River Beyond the World is a 1996 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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