Carry Me Like Water (Paperback, 1st Rayo ed)

This immensely moving novel confronts divisions of race, gender, and class, fusing together the stories of people who come to recognize one another from former lives they didn't know existed -- or that they tried to forget. Diego, a deaf-mute, is barely surviving on the border in El Paso, Texas. Diego's sister, Helen, who lives with her husband in the posh suburbs of San Francisco, long ago abandoned both her brother and her El Paso roots. Helen's best friend, Lizzie, a nurse in an AIDS ward, begins to uncover her own buried past after a mystical encounter with a patient.

With "Carry Me Like Water," Benjamin Alire SAenz unfolds a beautiful story about hope and forgiveness, unexpected reunions, an expanded definition of family, and, ultimately, what happens when the disparate worlds of pain and privilege collide.

General

Imprint:	Rayo
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	September 2005
Authors:	Benjamin Alire Saenz
Dimensions:	205 x 136 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	503
Edition:	1st Rayo ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-06-083133-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-06-083133-2
Barcode:	9780060831332

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