Sandra Benitez
Birth date: March 26, 1941
Sandra Benitez's Books
A series of interconnected stories, with the final chapter closing the loop from the opening chapter. Since we spend so little time with any one character, I didn't feel especially invested in the story's final tragedy. But one chapter moved me to tears, as the man and his son were able to reach on...
See my blog note on it: http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/04/booknote-place-where-sea-remembers.html
Powerful little linked stories. Recommended.
Argh! I need a book from El Salvador, but I just can't do it--the prose is so cliche-ridden and disjointed and all-around awful. Whoever called this "beautifully told" should be fired.
I read this book in one sitting while supposedly watching the last game of the World Series. It is an intense book, the movingly told drama of a child orphaned by the shootings in the square at Archbishop Romero's funeral in San Salvador. As he tries to learn what happened to his mother, he returns ...
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