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    612-822-4611

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Dancing with Butterflies

Dancing with Butterflies

Grande, Reyna

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1439109060
ISBN13: 9781439109069
Publisher: Washington Square
Published: Oct 6 2009
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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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