” ‘I thought it was impossible to write a good novel about Los Angeles, but I was wrong.’ So says reviewer Dan Kois in New York magazine. Patti loved this novel also, describing it as West Coast cross between The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Odyssey. The pivotal character is a Mexican woman who works as a domestic servant for a wealthy, but fractious, LA couple, and through a massive failure of communication finds herself, with the couple’s children, on the wrong side of the law, and in the decidedly un-tinselly parts of town. Their journey is a remarkable and memorable adventure!”—from Watermark Book Company, Anacortes, WA. Buy The Barbarian Nurseries from your local indie.
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The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar
December 19, 2011
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