by Sandra Benitez (Author)
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times book award and winner of the Minnesota Book Award, A Place Where the Sea Remembers is a timeless classic, a mesmerizing world filled with love, betrayal, tragedy, and hope.
This rich and bewitching story is a bittersweet portrait of the people in Santiago, a Mexican village by the sea. Chayo, the flower seller, and her husband Candelario, the salad maker, are finally blessed with the child they thought they would never have. Their cause for happiness, however, triggers a chain of events that impact the lives of everyone in their world.
The hopes, triumphs, failures, and shortcomings of the novel's enchanting array of characters create a graceful picture of life that is both a universal portrait and an insider's look at life in Latin America.
Author Biography
Sandra Benítez is the author of A Place Where the Sea Remembers and the winner of the 1998 American Book Award, Bitter Grounds.
Number of Pages: 176
Dimensions: 0.41 x 8 x 5.28 IN
Publication Date: February 05, 1995
Award: Discover Great New Writers (1993)
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Place Where the Sea Remembers
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 7
