Dancing With ButterfliesDancing With Butterflies
a Novel
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Book, 2009
Current format, Book, 2009, 1st Washington Square Press trade paperback ed, Available .Book, 2009
Current format, Book, 2009, 1st Washington Square Press trade paperback ed, Available . Offered in 0 more formatsFrom the American Book Award-winning author of Across a Hundred Mountains comes the story of four women in Los Angeles bound together in friendship by their Mexican roots and their love of Folklorico dance. Original.
Chronicles the story of four women in Los Angeles bound together in friendship by their Mexican roots and their love of Folklorico dance.
In Dancing with Butterflies, Reyna Grande renders the Mexican immigrant experience in &;lyrical and sensual&; (Publishers Weekly, starred review) prose through the poignant stories of four women brought together through folklorico dance.
Dancing with Butterflies uses the alternating voices of four very different women whose lives interconnect through a common passion for their Mexican heritage and a dance company called Alegría. Yesenia, who founded Alegría with her husband, Eduardo, sabotages her own efforts to remain a vital, vibrant woman when she travels back and forth across the Mexican border for cheap plastic surgery. Elena, grief-stricken by the death of her only child and the end of her marriage, finds herself falling dangerously in love with one of her underage students. Elena's sister, Adriana, wears the wounds of abandonment by a dysfunctional family and becomes unable to discern love from abuse. Soledad, the sweet-tempered illegal immigrant who designs costumes for Alegría, finds herself stuck back in Mexico, where she returns to see her dying grandmother.
Reyna Grande has brought these fictional characters so convincingly to life that readers will imagine they know them.
Chronicles the story of four women in Los Angeles bound together in friendship by their Mexican roots and their love of Folklorico dance.
In Dancing with Butterflies, Reyna Grande renders the Mexican immigrant experience in &;lyrical and sensual&; (Publishers Weekly, starred review) prose through the poignant stories of four women brought together through folklorico dance.
Dancing with Butterflies uses the alternating voices of four very different women whose lives interconnect through a common passion for their Mexican heritage and a dance company called Alegría. Yesenia, who founded Alegría with her husband, Eduardo, sabotages her own efforts to remain a vital, vibrant woman when she travels back and forth across the Mexican border for cheap plastic surgery. Elena, grief-stricken by the death of her only child and the end of her marriage, finds herself falling dangerously in love with one of her underage students. Elena's sister, Adriana, wears the wounds of abandonment by a dysfunctional family and becomes unable to discern love from abuse. Soledad, the sweet-tempered illegal immigrant who designs costumes for Alegría, finds herself stuck back in Mexico, where she returns to see her dying grandmother.
Reyna Grande has brought these fictional characters so convincingly to life that readers will imagine they know them.
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