num_pages: 240
description: Guadalupe Magdalena Molina Vásquez -- wife, scoundrel, courtesan, mother -- is full of contradictions: she believes in love but is suspicious of men; she rejects religion but admires the Virgin Mary; she respects tradition while breaking all the rules. Here, in the Golden Zone of Teatán, Mexico, Magda tells her extraordinary life story -- from a poor Mexican barrio to American affluence, from wide-eyed childhood to worldly courtesan life, from full-blooded youth to oncoming blindness -- and bewitchingly imparts the hard-earned wisdom she has gained through the years.
language: English
title: Kissing the Virgin's Mouth
titlecomplete: Kissing the Virgin's Mouth
genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Latin American, Novels
ratings_count: 588
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial