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082 14 $aFIC$bCASTILLO
049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aCastillo, Ana.
245 10 $aSo far from God :$ba novel /$cAna Castillo.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$c2005, ©1993.
300 $a252 pages ;$c21 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $a"First published as a Norton paperback 2005"--Title page verso.
520 $aSofia 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. -- Back cover.
505 0 $aAccount of the first astonishing occurrence in the lives of a woman named Sofia and her four fated daughters; and the equally astonishing return of her wayward husband -- On Caridad's holy restoration and her subsequent clairvoyance: Both phenomena questioned by the doubting Tomases of Tome -- On the subject of Dona Felicia's remedios, which in and of themselves are worthless without unwavering faith; and a brief sampling of common ailments along with cures which have earned our curandera respect and devotion throughout war and peace -- Of the further telling of our clairvoyant Caridad who after being afflicted with the pangs of love disappears and upon discovery is henceforth known as La Armitana -- Interlude: On Francisco el Penitente's first becoming a santero and thereby sealing his fate -- Renewed courtship of Loca's mom and dad and how in '49 Sofia got swept off her feet by Domingo's Clark Gable mustache, despite her familia's opinion of the charlatan actor -- Caridad reluctantly returns home to assume a life as what folks in "Fanta Se" call a channeler -- What appears to be a deviation of our story but wherein, with some patience, the reader will discover that there is always more than the eye can see to any account -- Sofia, who would never again let her husband have the last word, announces to the amazement of her familia and vecinos her decision to run for la mayor of Tome -- Wherein Sofia discovers La Loca's playmate by the acequia has an uncanny resemblance to the legendary Llorona; the ectoplasmic return of Sofi's eldest daughter; Fe falls in love again; and some culinary advice from La Loca -- Marriage of Sofia's faithful daughter to her cousin, Casimiro, descendant of sheepherders and promising accountant, who, by all accounts, was her true fated love; and of her death, which lingers among us all heavier than air -- Of the hideous crime of Francisco el Penitente, and his pathetic calls heard throughout the countryside as his body dangled from a pinon like a crow-picked pear; and the end of Caridad and her beloved emerald, which we nevertheless will refrain from calling tragic -- Final farewell of Don Domingo, sin a big mitote; and an encounter with un doctor invisible, or better known in these parts as a psychic surgeon, who, in any case, has no cure for death -- Dona Felicia calls in the troops who herein reveal a handful of their own tried and proven remedios; and some mixed medical advice is offered to the beloved Doctor Tolentino -- La loca Santa returns to the world via Albuquerque before her transcendental departure; and a few random political remarks from the highly opinionated narrator -- Sofia founds and becomes la first presidenta of the later-to-become world-renowned organization M.O.M.A.S.; and a rumor regarding the inevitability of double standards is (we hope) dispensed with.
586 $aMountains & Plains Book Award, 1994.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
590 $bInternet Archive 2
650 0 $aMexican American families$vFiction.
650 0 $aMothers and daughters$vFiction.
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651 0 $aNew Mexico$vFiction.
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