Publisher:
Berkley Books: January 2000
This spellbinding collection of eleven stories chronicles the remarkable journey of one woman s life from childhood to adulthood, through exotic landscapes, and through the darker, more mysterious terrain of the human heart. The title story inhabits a child s private realm within the maze of corridors in a Brazilian hotel. Later, a toy gun from a cowgirl costume becomes the symbol of something all too real. In a cramped apartment in Sweden, a young wife finds herself caught in the tensions between her husband and his father. A wife slips the bonds of marriage on a beach in Mexico. In a desert ...
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