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From the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. All of the members of the Reyes family are thereall except for Lala, the. 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. CARAMELO, the gorgeous new novel by Sandra Cisneros, begins with a portrait taken on a summer trip to Acapulco, one of those spontaneous group shots offered by photographers who comb the beach to record memories, real or manufactured. 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. Caramelois a romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes imagined. This long-anticipated novel is an all-embracing epic of family history, Mexican history, the immigrant experience, and a young Mexican-American womans road to.

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 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 shawl that this.