Kissing the Virgin's Mouth: A Novel
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0060933585 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, February 2002
A young Mexican woman climbs out of the barrio to achieve affluence and independence in America, as she evolves from wide-eyed innocent to worldly courtesan. A first novel. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
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Guadalupe Magdalena Molina Vásquez -- wife, scoundrel, courtesan, mother -- is full of contradictions: she believes in love but is suspicious of men; she rejects religion but admires the Virgin Mary; she respects tradition while breaking all the rules. Here, in the Golden Zone of Teatán, Mexico, Magda tells her extraordinary life story -- from a poor Mexican barrio to American affluence, from wide-eyed childhood to worldly courtesan life, from full-blooded youth to oncoming blindness -- and bewitchingly imparts the hard-earned wisdom she has gained through the years.
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