Rosarita
Anita Desai
Rated: 3.14 of 5 stars
3.14
· 14 ratings · 112 pages · Published: 04 Jul 2024
A young student sits on a bench in a park in San Miguel, Mexico. Bonita is away from her home in India to learn Spanish. She is alone, somewhere she has no connection to. It is bliss.
And then a woman approaches her. The woman claims to recognize Bonita because she is the spitting image of her mother, who made the same journey from India to Mexico as a young artist. No, says Bonita, my mother didn’t paint. She never travelled to Mexico. But this strange woman insists, and so Bonita follows her. Into a story where Bonita and her mother will move apart and come together, and where the past threatens to flood the present, or re-write it.
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- fantasy 3
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- literary fiction 3
- magical realism 3
- historical fiction 2
- family 2
- summer 2
- protagonists of colour 2
- mystery 2
- on the move 1
- grief 1
- female mc 1
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- audiobook 3
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