The barbarian nurseries
By: Hector Tobar
Edition: 1st Canadian ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781443407090
Subjects: Millionaires; Abandoned children; Women immigrants; Women household employees; Illegal aliens; Mexican Americans; Social classes; Fiction
Description: When Scott Torres and his wife, Maureen Thompson, both decide to take a break from domestic life following a dramatic fight and neither bothers to inform the other, their two sons wind up in the care of the family's live-in maid, Araceli. Unable to reach their parents and reluctant to contact the police, Araceli does the only thing she can think of and sets off with the boys in search of their paternal grandfather, a decision that leads Scott and Maureen to believe that their children have been kidnapped.