Caramelo
by Sandra Cisneros
Every summer to Mexico. They always bring the past.
ou carry a country inside you that you've never fully lived in
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The Reyes family makes the annual pilgrimage from Chicago to Mexico City, and every summer the grandmother tells stories — about the family, about Mexico, about the rebozo being woven across generations. Cisneros weaves identity the same way — thread by thread, color by color, the pattern only visible from a distance. A dispatch about what it means to be from somewhere you've mostly only visited, and to love it anyway.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Mexico • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Mexican author
- Themes
- GenerationsWitness
