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Summary: Recommended After Oprah Read-Alike
Review: "Delia's Way" immerses the reader into the culture, traditions, and landscape of Panama. Delia Pineda heads a cast of memorable characters. Hers is the compelling story of a girl's struggle to reach womanhood.
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Summary: A delightful coming-of-age story.
Review: "Delia's Way" immerses the reader into the culture, traditions, and landscape of Panama. Delia Pineda heads a cast of memorable characters. Hers is the compelling story of a girl's struggle to reach womanhood.
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Summary: Recommended After Oprah Read-Alike
Review: (...) I couldn't put it down and I found it superior to many Oprah Book Club selections. It's an elegant coming of age story set in Panama. It brings the Latin American culture to the reader in a gentle and accurate portrayal of a family with its conflicts and passions. This book reaches readers from teen age girls to adults with its exotic setting and compeling plot.
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Summary: A satisfyingly layered and textured novel
Review: Delia's Way is a novel in which the sense of place is so textured and thick as to become a character in itself. Meanwhile the human characters are reassuring: Human, basically good, with realistic flaws, failings and secrets. A well-written and readable story.
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Summary: I thoroughly enjoyed reading Delia's Way.
Review: Essex has such a unique style of writing, that makes the reader feel like one of the characters in her book. Her book took me back to my youth, and I could relive those wonderful, care-free days! I spent two wonderful afternoons, feeling like a 16-year old girl, and that feeling stayed with me for quite a while. To me, it was a beautiful "trip to my roots": people, customs, traditions, some of them good, others sad, but still worth reliving them. This is one book that I wouldn't mind reading again and again!
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Summary: Family dynamics, secrets, tropical passions.
Review: For Delia Pineda, life is a weaving of poems, music, printingink, orange blossoms; the flicker of candles on Holy Week and around acasket; the first stirrings of her sexuality; the wantonness of Carnaval.On tropical rainy days and sultry nights, Delia peels away the tenuous layers that wrap her family's secrets. She collects whispers and hints like pieces of a puzzle and fits them in, one-at-a-time. When the last piece is in place, burdened by half-truths, evasion, and psychological abuse, she comes up for air and breaks free of the shackles that hold the Pinedas together, to link them with a gentler bond of love and understanding.
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Summary: Recommended After Oprah Read-Alike
Review: I read this book because BOOKLIST recommended it as "After Oprah Read-Alike". I couldn't put it down and I found it superior to many Oprah Book Club selections. It's an elegant coming of age story set in Panama. It brings the Latin American culture to the reader in a gentle and accurate portrayal of a family with its conflicts and passions. This book reaches readers from teen age girls to adults with its exotic setting and compeling plot.
Rating:
Summary: Recommended After Oprah Read-Alike
Review: I read this book because BOOKLIST recommended it as "After Oprah Read-Alike". I couldn't put it down and I found it superior to many Oprah Book Club selections. It's an elegant coming of age story set in Panama. It brings the Latin American culture to the reader in a gentle and accurate portrayal of a family with its conflicts and passions. This book reaches readers from teen age girls to adults with its exotic setting and compeling plot.
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Summary: WOW - feel like I am there
Review: My Christmas gift to myself was to read Delia's Way. I want more - when is the next book? Or else I am coming to Paso Robles to sit at your feet and listen to stories about growing up in Panama. I particularly liked the mixture of English and Spanish, not necessarily having the English right after the Spanish. It stretched my language abilities, and I enjoy the use of Spanglish (mixing English and Spanish words together in the same sentence).
;-)
Thank you for a great read!
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Summary: WOW - feel like I am there
Review: My Christmas gift to myself was to read Delia's Way. I want more - when is the next book? Or else I am coming to Paso Robles to sit at your feet and listen to stories about growing up in Panama. I particularly liked the mixture of English and Spanish, not necessarily having the English right after the Spanish. It stretched my language abilities, and I enjoy the use of Spanglish (mixing English and Spanish words together in the same sentence).
;-)
Thank you for a great read!
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