Gabriela and The Widow
The Widow (La Viuda) is ninety-two years old. She lives in a house filled with photos and coins, jewels and a sable coat. Aware that her memory is failing but burning with desire to record the story of her life on paper, she hires Gabriela, a nineteen-year-old Mixteca from Mexico. Gabriela is one...
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The Widow (La Viuda) is ninety-two years old. She lives in a house filled with photos and coins, jewels and a sable coat. Aware that her memory is failing but burning with desire to record the story of her life on paper, she hires Gabriela, a nineteen-year-old Mixteca from Mexico. Gabriela is one of the few survivors of a massacre and treacherous journey to El Norte. Gabriela and the Widow is a story of chaos, revenge, and change: death and love, love and sex, and sex and death. Gabriela seeks revenge for the destruction of her village. The Widow craves balance for the betrayals in her life. In the end, the Widow gives Gabriela the secret of immortality.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00AYQ5582
Publish date: 2013-01-08
Publisher: Coffeetown Press
Pages no: 283
Edition language: English
If you could continue the story, what events would you include? I would have liked for Gabriela to find someone who truly loved her. She never had a man’s love and throughout the book I always wondered it would be like if she had known different kinds of love did exist. What did you like about th...
Does the setting fit the mood and the plot? Every time Remick introduced a new setting, he also provided visual imagery that easily transported the reader so you are able to experience the scene with the character. I enjoyed the story immensely. Did you like the way the story ended? The ending was g...
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