Caramelo
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781417718801 (1417718803)
Publish date: September 1st 2003
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Feminism,
Family,
Contemporary,
Latin American
Half way through and am in love with this story! An absolutely riot! Now that I"m done I can say I enjoyed this book. Her writing style here is different, it made me feel as if I was listening to her tell the story of her life and family. Little strange toward the end but heck who hasn't imagined s...
"Tell me a story, even if it's a lie." Simple words standing alone on an otherwise empty page. I like this beginning.Pg. 21 -- I just finished the part about the father giving away Lala's Bobby doll while she watches, horrified. How is it that parents never understand the attachment that children fo...
Apart from what seemed to be the theme of the book - that women are slaves to men's passions and their lives will always be tossed like corks on the sea of masculine whimsy - it was pretty good. No-one seemed to be happy, though.
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