false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173663192m/312435.jpg 312435 10 <B>"A delightful novel...impossible to resist."&#151;Barbara Kingsolver, <I>Los Angeles Times Book Review</I></B> <P>Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love in the sleepy New Mexico hamlet of Tome, a town teeming with marvels where the comic and the horrific, the real and the supernatural, reside. 1949237 1993 So Far from God: A Novel total:548|5:168|4:207|3:128|2:37|1:8| 548 2134 745 70 5 1 false false Tue Jun 12 12:13:10 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 17 06:53:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 21:55:06 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 18:49:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Sun Aug 23 07:25:15 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 07:25:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 19 13:19:28 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 07:59:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 09:33:13 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 13:52:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 23 19:14:17 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 27 19:52:10 -0700 2007
I didn't appreciate the characters or the story until we discussed it...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 10:02:41 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 10:11:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 26 08:06:16 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 08:11:06 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Mar 30 18:48:25 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 18:51:22 -0700 2009 "So far from God-So close to the United States"
The chapter titles are priceless. More magic realism. Beautiful imagery-quite the feminist/woman-centric text.]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 05 12:52:05 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 12:55:01 -0800 2009 2 0 true false Tue Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 16:41:01 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 16:54:23 -0700 2008 1
The social commentary on s...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 17:09:13 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 15:06:00 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 22 08:55:29 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 09:03:34 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Aug 24 21:12:46 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 21:20:30 -0700 2009
latin-mysticism
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I'd recommend it solely on La Loca...lol]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Mon Feb 04 17:26:29 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 19:52:47 -0800 2008
This book was like talking the author- she writes in a mixture of Spanish and English, and doesn't mind if you don't understand. I read this for Southwest Lit in Durango, CO, and loved the book, hated what we did ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 19:15:56 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 06:41:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 17:04:10 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 17:04:53 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Apr 07 10:08:22 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 10:09:06 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1996 Tue Apr 14 16:33:45 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 16:34:12 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 08:15:54 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 20 08:13:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=312435