From the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. Like the cherished rebozo, or shawl, that has been passed down through generations of Reyes women, Caramelo is alive with the vibrations of history, family, and love. Soon, a multigenerational family narrative turns into a whirlwind exploration of storytelling, lies, and life. Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothers and to understand her place on this side of the border and that, Lala is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she starts telling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to how she got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating. The main character, Lala, is the only girl in a family of seven children and her family often travels between Chicago and Mexico City. Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros is based on the idea that everyone in a family is connected, like the threads that make up her grandmothers caramelo (striped) rebozo, the Mexican. It was inspired by her Mexican heritage and childhood in the barrio of Chicago, Illinois.
Vivid, funny, intimate, historical, it is a brilliant work destined to become a classic: a major new novel from one of.
Every year, Ceyala “Lala” Reyes' family-aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers-packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. Caramelo is a 2002 epic novel spanning a hundred years of Mexican History by American author Sandra Cisneros. Caramelois a romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes imagined.
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