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So Far From God PA

ISBN: 9780393326932 | 0393326934
Edition: 00
Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 6/17/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love in the sleepy New Mexico hamlet of Tome, a town teeming with marvels where the comic and the horrific, the real and the supernatural, reside.
"A delightful novel...impossible to resist."-Barbara Kingsolver, Los Angeles Times Book Review
1. An Account of the First Astonishing Occurrence in the Lives of a Woman Named Sofia and Her Four Fated Daughters; and the Equally Astonishing Return of Her Wayward Husband
19(24)
2. On Caridad's Holy Restoration and Her Subsequent Clairvoyance: Both Phenomena Questioned by the Do... MORE
43(16)
3. On the Subject of Doņa Felicia's Remedios, Which in and of Themselves Are Worthless without Unwavering Faith; and a Brief Sampling of Common Ailments Along with Cures Which Have Earned Our Curandera Respect and Devotion throughout War and Peace
59(13)
4. Of the Further Telling of Our Clairvoyant Caridad Who After Being Afflicted with the Pangs of Love Disappears and Upon Discovery Is Henceforth Known as La Armitaņa
72(22)
5. An Interlude: On Francisco el Penitente's First Becoming a Santero and Thereby Sealing His Fate
94(9)
6. The Renewed Courtship of Loca's Mom and Dad and How in '49 Sofia Got Swept Off Her Feet by Domingo's Clark Gable Mustache, Despite Her Familia's Opinion of the Charlatan Actor
103(11)
7. Caridad Reluctantly Returns Home to Assume a Life as What Folks in "Fanta Se" Call a Channeler
114(6)
8. What Appears to Be a Deviation of Our Story but Wherein, with Some Patience, the Reader Will Discover That There Is Always More Than the Eye Can See to Any Account
120(10)
9. Sofia, Who Would Never Again Let Her Husband Have the Last Word, Announces to the Amazement of Her Familia and Vecinos Her Decision to Run for la Mayor of Tome
130(20)
10. Wherein Sofia Discovers La Loca's Playmate by the Acequia Has an Uncanny Resemblance to the Legendary Llorona; the Ectoplasmic Return of Sofi's Eldest Daughter; Fe Falls in Love Again; and Some Culinary Advice from La Loca150(20)
11. The Marriage of Sofia's Faithful Daughter to her Cousin, Casimiro, Descendant of Sheepherders and Promising Accountant, Who, by all Accounts, Was Her True Fated Love; and of Her Death, Which Lingers Among Us All Heavier than Air170(20)
12. Of the Hideous Crime of Francisco el Penitente, and His Pathetic Calls Heard Throughout the Countryside as His Body Dangled from a Piņon like a Crow-Picked Pear; and the End of Caridad and Her Beloved Emerald, Which We Nevertheless Will Refrain from Calling Tragic190(23)
13. The Final Farewell of Don Domingo, sin a Big mitote; and an Encounter with un Doctor Invisible, or Better Known in These Parts as a Psychic Surgeon, Who, in Any Case, Has No Cure for Death213(17)
14. Doņa Felicia Calls in the Troops Who Herein Reveal a Handful of Their Own Tried and Proven Remedios; and Some Mixed Medical Advice Is Offered to the Beloved Doctor Tolentino230(8)
15. La Loca Santa Returns to the World via Albuquerque Before Her Transcendental Departure; and a Few Random Political Remarks from the Highly Opinionated Narrator238(8)
16. Sofia Founds and Becomes la First Presidenta of the Later-to-Become World-Renowned Organization M.O.M.A.S.; and a Rumor Regarding the Inevitability of Double Standards Is (We Hope) Dispensed With246


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