Salt water : a novel / Charles Simmons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simmons, Charles, 1924-2017

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

First loves--Fiction.

First loves.

Genre:

Fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

175 pages : map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1998.

Summary:

Seeking to suppress a native uprising, the Mexican army destroys a small village, forcing Concha, an Opata Indian girl, to head north on her own. She finds her way to Tucson, where she becomes a housekeeper for a wealthy family and gives birth to a beautiful and sensitive daughter, Rosa. The narrative continues with Rosa, who at fifteen marries a young, zealous minister torn between his adopted faith and Mexican spiritualism. Shelly, the third voice to tell her story, is a Latina working for a publisher in modern-day Los Angeles. Anxious to escape a troubled life, she undertakes a research assignment in Tucson, where she finds herself drawn to a Mexican family whose history is unexpectedly linked to her own. Like Spirits of the Ordinary, where some of these characters appeared, Kathleen Alcala's new novel is a many-layered tale of heritage, loss, and understanding.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has correspondence from the publisher laid in.

ISBN:

081182182X

0811819167

OCLC:

38748944