The Flower in the Skull
by Alcala, Kathleen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0811819167
- ISBN 13
- 9780811819169
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Synopsis
Deep in the Sonoran Desert of Mexico in the 1870s, a village of Opata Indians is attacked by soldiers. Along with the rest of her tribe, Concha is driven from her homeland and eventually finds her way to Tucson, where she finds a job cleaning houses and caring for children. When her own daughter, Rosa, is born, the legacy of Concha's dislocation continues, as Rosa is raised far from her native culture and struggles to find her place in a strange world. As she did in her acclaimed, award-winning novel, Spirits of the Ordinary, Kathleen Alcalá takes on the complexities of cultural heritage, identity, and assimilation, and explores the mysterious nature of place, spiritualism, and faith in the lives of these extraordinary ordinary people.
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- HousatonicBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010898
- Title
- The Flower in the Skull
- Author
- Alcala, Kathleen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; First Printing
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0811819167
- ISBN 13
- 9780811819169
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- This edition first published
- April 1, 1998
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction : General : Literary;
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