Dancing with Butterflies: A Novel (Paperback)

In Dancing with Butterflies, Reyna Grande renders the Mexican immigrant experience in "lyrical and sensual" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) prose through the poignant stories of four women brought together through folklorico dance.Dancing with Butterflies uses the alternating voices of four very different women whose lives interconnect through a common passion for their Mexican heritage and a dance company called Alegria. Yesenia, who founded Alegria with her husband, Eduardo, sabotages her own efforts to remain a vital, vibrant woman when she travels back and forth across the Mexican border for cheap plastic surgery. Elena, grief-stricken by the death of her only child and the end of her marriage, finds herself falling dangerously in love with one of her underage students. Elena's sister, Adriana, wears the wounds of abandonment by a dysfunctional family and becomes unable to discern love from abuse. Soledad, the sweet-tempered illegal immigrant who designs costumes for Alegria, finds herself stuck back in Mexico, where she returns to see her dying grandmother. Reyna Grande has brought these fictional characters so convincingly to life that readers will imagine they know them.

General

Imprint:	Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	October 2009
Authors:	Reyna Grande
Dimensions:	209 x 133 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-1-4391-0906-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-4391-0906-0
Barcode:	9781439109069

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