Sandra Benitez, Author . Hyperion/Theia $23.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6400-3
Set in Minnesota and Mexico, Benítez's engrossing fourth novel recounts the journey of a responsible daughter who travels south to search for her long-lost brother. Thirty-four-year-old Annie Hart Rush is living a mundane life in...
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Sandra Benitez, Author Coffee House Press $10 (160p) ISBN 978-1-56689-011-3
Latina writer Benitez begins her excellent debut novel with a painful event--the wait for a drowned body to float to shore--and works backwards, retracing the myriad, seemingly insignificant steps that led to the character's death. As in Like Water...
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Sandra Benitez, Author Hyperion Books $22.45 (444p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6157-6
""In Salvador, coffee steams while it sits,"" warns the epigraph to this piercing tale of two Salvadoran families. In El Salvador, coffee provides the way of life. Savored by both plantation owners and poverty-stricken pickers, the brew is as much...
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Sandra Benitez, Author Theia $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6399-0
Set in El Salvador during the civil war of the 1980s, Ben tez's third novel (after A Place Where the Sea Remembers and Bitter Grounds) seamlessly blends fact with imagination, evoking the trauma of war more vividly than any newspaper account. Nine-ye
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