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Thirteen Senses

A Memoir

by Victor Villasenor

ISBN: 0060935677
ISBN-13: 9780060935672
Format: Paperback

Summary

A sprawling family memoir about the experiences of multiple generations in Mexico and the United States.

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"THIRTEEN SENSES is not only a stirring memoir of a single marriage but also a timeless love story...Guided by Villaseñor's crisp language, wicked sense of humor and vivid descriptions of time and place, THIRTEEN SENSES offers readers of all ethnicities and ages a taste of a delectable commodity that, in today's world of immediate gratification, seems elusive to many."    -- Ruben Navarrette

   -- Washington Post Book World

"Gifted storyteller, mystic and blowhard Victor Villasenor goes to his usual extremes in this memoir...."    -- Michael Harris

   -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 2002
Size: 5.5 x 8 inches
Weight: 1 pounds
Pages: 544

Publisher's Notes

A daring memoir of love, magic, adventure, and miracles, Victor Villaseñor's Thirteen Senses continues the exhilarating family saga that began in the widely acclaimed bestseller Rain of Gold, delivering a stunning story of passion, family, and the forgotten mystical senses that stir within us all.

Thirteen Senses begins with the fiftieth wedding anniversary of the aging former bootlegger Salvador and his elegant wife, Lupe. When asked by a young priest to repeat the sacred ceremonial phrase "to honor and obey," Lupe surprises herself and says. "No, I will not say 'obey'. How dare you! You don't talk to me like this after fifty years of marriage and I now knowing what I know!" After the hilarious shock of Lupe's rejection of the ceremony, the Villaseñor family is forced to examine the love that Lupe and Salvador have shared for so many years -- a universal, gut-honest love that will eventually energize and inspire the couple into old age.

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