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Desert Palms, Carolyn D. Pledge-Amaral
Desert Palms, Carolyn D. Pledge-Amaral
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DESERT PALMS is a contemporary women’s novel set in an Arizona RV park. When Miamians Margie Campos and her husband, Carlos, unexpectantly inherit Desert Palms, a rundown retirement community, Margie reluctantly agrees to stay in Arizona to overhaul the park. With the discovery of a secret letter that threatens to unravel the family, an unscrupulous broker determined to buy the park on the cheap, and a husband bent on hitting it big, Margie digs in and starts to find purpose amidst a desert microcosm.
Told from Margie’s perspective in a closely attached third person, DESERT PALMS is a realistic and …
Fragile Saints, Mary-Claire Ibarra
Fragile Saints, Mary-Claire Ibarra
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
FRAGILE SAINTS is a magical realist novel set in contemporary Peru. Elsa is struggling with her recent divorce and childhood memories of her family’s silk-producing farm haunt her, so when Elsa’s dying grandmother requests to see her, she visits Peru. There, Elsa learns she has inherited a country house, near the old family hacienda, which is haunted by a dark secret. Elsa is intrigued with the house, its caretakers, and her new lover Gustavo, yet she encounters disturbing ghostly visitors.
The novel is written primarily from Elsa’s point of view, as she discovers her purpose, but an omniscient narrator is …