num_pages: 288
description: From the critically acclaimed author of This Burns My Heart comes gorgeous emotionally wise tale about a daughter who unearths the hidden life of her enigmatic mother.Mara Alencars mother Ana is the moon the sun the stars. Ana a struggling voice-over actress is an admirably brave and recklessly impulsive woman who does everything in her power to care for her little girl. With no other family or friends her own age Ana eclipses Maras entire world. They take turns caring for each otherin ways big and small. Their arrangement begins to unravel when Ana becomes involved with a civilian rebel group attempting to undermine the city's torturous Police Chief who rules over 1980s Rio de Janeiro with terrifying brutality. Ana makes decisions that indelibly change their shared life. When Mara is forced to escape she emigrates to California where she finds employment as a caregiver to a young woman dying of stomach cancer. Its here that she begins to grapple with her turbulent past and starts to uncover vital truthsabout her mother herself and what it means to truly take care of someone. Told with vivid imagery and subtle poignancy The Caregiver is a moving and profound story that asks us to investigate who we areas children and parents immigrants and citizens and ultimately humans looking for vital connectivity.
language: None
title: The Caregiver
publisher: Simon  Schuster