Vigil
By: Cecilia Samartin.
Edition: 1st Washington Square Press hardcover [sic] ed.
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781416549529
Subjects: Women immigrants -- Fiction; Salvadorans -- United States -- Fiction; Women refugees -- El Salvador -- Fiction; Nannies -- Fiction; Upper class -- Fiction; Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: While Ana waits at her beloved's deathbed, she thinks back on her life and the incredible journey that brought her to this unlikely place. Ana's story takes her from war-torn El Salvador, to a convent in the United States, and finally to a wealthy California estate where she is employed as the nanny for a dysfunctional family caught up in the throes of a decadent life. Despite her own emotional wounds, she is able to bring love and healing to her affluent yet spiritually bereft employers. Gifts that no money could ever buy.