The River Beyond the World
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Description
Luisa Cantu is a girl from a Sierra Madre mountain village. After being impregnated in a fertility ritual of ancient origin, 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-turns mystical and pragmatic, serious and comic-reveals the many ways human beings can wound one another, the nature of love and sacrifice, and the possibility of forgiveness. [Amazon.com]
ISBN
9780312169862
Publication Date
1996
Publisher
Picador
City
New York, NY
Keywords
Contemporary American literature, Texas (Fiction), Women (Fiction)
Disciplines
Creative Writing | Fiction
Recommended Citation
Peery, Janet, "The River Beyond the World" (1996). MFA Creative Writing Faculty Bookshelf. 22.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/mfa_books/22