Carry Me Like Water: A Chicano Novel of Siblings, Buried

Carry Me Like Water: A Chicano Novel of Siblings, Buried Pasts, and Hope During the AIDS Crisis

This immensely moving novel confronts divisions of race, gender, and class, fusing together the stories of people who come to recognize one another from former lives they didn't know existed -- or that they tried to forget. Diego, a deaf-mute, is barely surviving on the border in El Paso, Texas. Diego's sister, Helen, who lives with her husband in the posh suburbs of San Francisco, long ago abandoned both her brother and her El Paso roots. Helen's best friend, Lizzie, a nurse in an AIDS ward, begins to uncover her own buried past after a mystical encounter with a patient.
With Carry Me Like Water, Benjamin Alire SÃ¡enz unfolds a beautiful story about hope and forgiveness, unexpected reunions, an expanded definition of family, and, ultimately, what happens when the disparate worlds of pain and privilege collide.
Country USA
Brand Harper Perennial
Manufacturer Harper Perennial
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate 2005-09-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780060831332

Carry Me Like Water: A Chicano Novel of Siblings, Buried Pasts, and Hope During the AIDS Crisis