Lala Reyes is the youngest daughter in a big Mexican-American family from Chicago, and each summer the family drives to Mexico City to stay with her Awful Grandmother. Narrating from her own perspective, Lala fills in what she doesn't know of her family's past, moving through the Mexican Revolution and her grandparents' marriage, with a caramel-colored rebozo as the symbol. Sandra Cisneros mixes Spanish phrases, gossip and family myths in a loose, comic style.
It fits readers of Latino coming-of-age fiction and family sagas. If you enjoy digressions, stories within stories and the feeling of eavesdropping at a large family gathering, you'll likely settle into it comfortably.
Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Wisdom Collector. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
