In the Name of Salome
Author: Julia Alvarez
The Barnes & Noble Review – La Musa de la Patria In recent years, novelists Mona Simpson (Anywhere But Here), Karla Kuban (Marchlands) and Susannah Moore (My Old Sweetheart), among numerous others, have memorably explored the mother-daughter relationship, showing us the conflicted, often painful intersections of the lives of their multigenerational characters. But in Juli….Read More
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