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Tuesday, November 13th at 7:30 PM
NINA MARIE MARTINEZ discusses and signs
Caramba!
(Anchor, $13.95, trade paperback reprint)
In the Fireplace Room at the Redwood City Library
1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA 94063
(650) 780-7018
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"M" will be on hand with books for purchase. Publishers Weekly said: "Lava Landing, Calif., home of a dormant volcano and the annual Miss Magma beauty pageant, is the setting for this effervescent, luminous debut. Although the novel has a slew of protagonists, readers first meet Natalie and Consuelo (Nat and Sway), two firecrackers with an 'ever growing fascination with the wideness of the world.' Sway's father is recently deceased and stuck in purgatory ('The Perg'); the only way to get him out is to go to his hometown in Mexico, gather the townspeople, visit the railroad tracks where he was killed and pray for him. Meanwhile, Martínez, in a bubbly mix of English and Spanglish, spins a plethora of side plots... Martínez draws on magical realism, kitschy humor and tongue-in-cheek cliches ... but there's truth behind the zany humor. Martínez's soap-opera silly story belies serious truth telling about love and happiness in life and death..." | |
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