When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781594483363)

The award-winning debut novel that ?brings to mind the atmosphere and tension of Gabriel Garc a M rquez.?( Katharine Weber, author of The Little Women)

N tido Am n knows he was born in Guatemala, but he doesn't know why his family left. Raised in the States by his immigrant parents, they never talked about it. When N tido loses his father to Alzheimer's disease, his despondent mother grows increasingly silent and N tido realizes that his links to the past are disappearing.

Seeking answers, N tido travels to Guatemala against his mother's wishes. Upon his arrival in the small town of R o Roto, he is mistaken for the new priest, and decides to play the part. From his parishioners, he catches tantalizing and frightening glimpses of the buried history he's aching to know. In a place shrouded in secrets, N tido is at once determined and frightened to unearth the unnamed horrors it has seen.

With her elegant, hypnotic prose, this marks Sellers- Garc a's arrival as a distinctive new voice in fiction.

Author: Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
ISBN-10: 1594483361
ISBN-13: 9781594483363
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2008
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.12w x 0.85d