Book: The River Beyond The World Luisa leaves her mountain village in Mexico to work in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as a housemaid for Mrs. Eddie Hatch, a woman with a strong will and a narrow worldview. Their complex relationship--by turns mystical and pragmatic, serious and comic--reveals the many ways human beings can wound each other.
Luisa Cantu is a girl from a Sierra Madre mountain village. After being impregnated in a fertility ritual of ancient ofigin, she leaves Mexico to work in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as a housemaid for Mrs. Eddie Hatch, a woman with a strong will and a narrow worldview. Their complex relationship-by turns mystical and pragmnatic, serious and comic-reveals the many ways human beings can wound one another, the nautre of love and sacrifice, and the possibility of forgiveness.
Details of Book: The River Beyond The World Book: The River Beyond The World
Author: Janet Peery
ISBN: 0312169868
ISBN-13: 9780312169862
, 978-0312169862
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Sep 1997
Publisher: Picador Usa
Number of Pages: 304
Language: English