Spirits of the ordinary : a tale of Casas Grandes / Kathleen Alcalá.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alcalá, Kathleen, 1954-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Mexican-American Border Region--History--Fiction.

Families.

History.

Mexican-American Border Region--History--Fiction.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexican Americans--Texas--History--Fiction.

Mexican Americans.

Texas.

Mexican American families--Texas--Fiction.

Mexican American families.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

244 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif : Chronicle Books, 1997.

Summary:

When the tale opens in the 1870s in a village in northern Mexico, the Caraval family has long been clandestine Jews. To the dismay of his parents, however, Zacarias abandons religion and wanders in the desert, searching for gold. At home in Saltillo, his wife Estela takes the rare and bold step of declaring herself independent from her husband and raises their children on her own. But as she takes a lover and tries to make her own path, she learns that the time-honored traditions of Saltillo can be tested only so far. Her young brother and sister, androgynous twins with unsettling powers, have already been banished north of the border, where many of the novel's events unfold. Central to the surprising destinies of these characters, and perhaps even to the future of Mexico, are the momentous events at the ancient and sacred cliff dwellings of Casas Grandes.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0811814475

OCLC:

34514595