Stones From Ibarra
by:
Harriet Doerr (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781556908293 (1556908296)
Publish date: January 1st 1993
Publisher: Recorded Books
Edition language: English
I understand that for its time (1978) this was an eye-opening and powerful book of stories. I also love that, at 60-years-old, this was the author's first novel, however, the story-telling is really dated. There's quite a bit of "silly but well-intentioned Americans meet the wise, noble natives" kin...
Stones for Ibarra is one of those books which should be read at least once in life. I thought that I will like this book as much as I like To Kill a Mockingbird or Frankenstein but I just couldn't. However, what made Stones for Ibarra a rediscovery of life for the Evertons was the division of chapte...
I read this book in my early twenties and loved it. The writing is filled with light, both real and figurative. She successfully evokes the heat, landscape, and people of Mexico and also illuminates the complications of relationships, especially the difficulty of learning to live in another culture ...
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