Saenz Benjamin Alire - Carry Me Like Water - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: " Sentimental and ferocious upsetting and tender firmly magic - realist yet utterly moderns enz is a writer with greatness in him." San Diego Union Tribune With Carry Me Like Water Benjamin Alires enz unfolds a beautiful story about hope and forgiveness unexpected reunions an expanded definition of family and ultimately what happens when the disparate worlds of pain and privilege collide. Diego a deaf - mute is barely surviving on the border in El Paso Texas. Diego's sister Helen who lives with her husband in the posh suburbs of San Francisco long ago abandoned both her brother and her El Paso roots. Helen's best friend Lizzie a nurse in an AIDS ward begins to uncover her own buried past after a mystical encounter with a patient. This immensely moving novel confronts divisions of race gender and class fusing together the stories of people who come to recognize one another from former lives they didn't know existed or that they tried to forget.
Title: Carry Me Like Water
Author(s): Saenz Benjamin Alire
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060831332
Pages: 512 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/6/2005