Caramelo Sandra Cisneros by Sandra Cisneros 9781306954525, 1306954525, B00C8S9WOW instant download after payment.

Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros's first novel since her celebrated The House On Mango Street, weaves a large yet intricate pattern, much like the decorative fringe on a rebozo, the traditional Mexican shawl. 

Every year, Ceyala “Lala” Reyes' family — aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers — packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. 

"A joyful, fizzy American novel... Soulful, sophisticated and sceptical, full of great one-liners, it is one of those novels that blithely leap across the border between literary and popular fiction."  -  New York Times Book Review

Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothers and to understand her place on this side of the border and that, Lala is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she starts telling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to how she got to be so awful, the grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating. Soon, a multigenerational family narrative turns into a whirlwind exploration of storytelling, lies, and life. Like the cherished rebozo, or shawl, that has been passed down through generations of Reyes women, Caramelo is alive with the vibrations of history, family, and love. 

"Like Eduardo Galeano, John Dos Passos and John Steinbeck, Cisneros writes along the borders where the novel and social history intersect. In this lovingly told and poetic novel, she uses the storytelling art to give the voiceless ones a voice, and to find the border to the past, imbuing the struggles of her family and her countries with the richness of myth."   -   The Los Angeles Times