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Leaving TabascoCarmen Boullosa

Leaving Tabasco

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"Raised by her mother and grandmother, in an all-female home with not enough affection but more than enough stories to go around, Delmira Ulloa comes into adulthood with a wicked sense of humor and a delightful imagination. Agustini is not an ordinary village - Delmira grows up in a world where she sees her grandmother floating above the bed when she sleeps; where her grandmother remembers a time when stones turned into water; where during the dry season one can purchase torrential rains at a traveling fair; where her family's elderly serving woman develops stigmata, then disappears…

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3 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2002
    Grove Press · 256 pages · 9780802138606
  • Other · English · 2001
    Grove Press · 244 pages · 9780802116840
  • Other · English · 2001
    Atlantic · 244 pages · 9781903809075
GrandmothersFictionFiction, generalBildungsromansMagicFamiliesIntergenerational relations