Title: Kissing the Virgin's Mouth
First published: 2001
Description: Guadalupe Magdalena Molina Vasquez -- 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 Teatan, 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.
Subjects: Literature, Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Poor women, Women, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, general, Mexico, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction
Places: Mexico
LC classification: PS3557.E725 K57 2001