Washington Square Press, 2009. First edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. Signed by author on title page in my presence. As new copy with no flaws, opened only for the signing. First edition, 12mo, 392 pp., bookseller #00945.

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Dancing with Butterflies uses the alternating voices of four very different women whose lives interconnect through a common passion for their Mexican heritage and a dance company called Alegría. Yesenia, who founded Alegría with her husband, Eduardo, sabotages her own efforts to remain a vital, vibrant woman when she travels back and forth across the Mexican border for cheap plastic surgery. Elena, grief stricken by the death of her only child and the end of her marriage, finds herself falling dangerously in love with one of her underage students. Elena's sister, Adriana, wears the wounds of abandonment by a dys-functional family and becomes unable to discern love from abuse. Soledad, the sweet-tempered illegal immigrant who designs costumes for Alegría, finds herself stuck back in Mexico, where she returns to see her dying grandmother. Reyna Grande has brought these fictional characters so convincingly to life that readers will imagine they know them.

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Bookseller: Thleodore Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 00945
Title: Dancing with Butterflies
Author: Grande, Reyna
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 1439109060
ISBN 13: 9781439109069
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Date Published: 2009
Keywords: Chicano
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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