Bøger af Marcela Fuentes

"En 1951, una misteriosa anciana confronta a Pilar Aguirre en La Ciâenaga, un pueblo fronterizo entre Mâexico y Texas. Convencida de que Pilar le robâo el marido, le arroja una maldiciâon que cae tambiâen sobre su familia. Medio siglo despuâes, Lulâu Muänoz estâa lidiando con una vida caâotica, sobre todo, con su inminente fiesta de quinceaänos. Como si fuera poco, fallece su amada abuela. En el funeral, una desconocida glamourosa y solitaria aparece para cambiarle la vida. Rica en detalles cinemâaticos --desde rodeos polvorientos, un concierto de Selena y el confort de las baladas que se tocan en las reuniones familiares-- este memorable debut nos enfrenta a dos poderosas voces femeninas: la de una mujer que debe reconciliarse con su pasado y la de una joven que se esfuerza por abrazar su futuro. Es, sobre todo, una carta de amor a la cultura tejana y a la importancia de la familia." --

"In 1951, a mysterious old woman confronts Pilar Aguirre in the small border town of La Cienega, Texas. The old woman is sure Pilar stole her husband and, in a heated outburst, lays a curse on Pilar and her family. More than forty years later, Lulu Muänoz is dodging chaos at every turn: her troubled father's moods, his rules, her secret life as singer in a punk band, but most of all her upcoming quinceaänera. When her beloved grandmother passes away, Lulu finds herself drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and who lives alone and shunned on the edge of town. Their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family's past. As the quinceaänera looms--and we move between these two strong, irascible female voices--one woman must make peace with the past, and one girl pushes to embrace her future. Rich with cinematic details--from dusty rodeos to the excitement of a Selena concert and the comfort of conjunto ballads played at family gatherings--this memorable debut is a love letter to the Tejano culture and community that sustain both of these women as they discover what family means." --

"A novel with alternating timelines in which the consequences of one old woman's questionable curse reverberate through the generations of a Tejano family"--