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Fragile Saints, Mary-Claire Ibarra
Fragile Saints, Mary-Claire Ibarra
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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 …