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The House on the Lagoon
Rosario Ferré. Plume: 1996 (paperback). ISBN: 0452277078. 407 pages.
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Most of the books on our list are brand new in paperback. But this 1996
National Book Award Finalist didn't receive as much book group attention as many other Latin American novels. This
five-generation epic interconnects the very personal events in the lives of one Puerto Rican family with the tumultuous
twentieth-century history of the island. While this last could be said about many Latin American novels, what sets this one
apart is the competing histories offered by the two main narrators: the matriarch and patriarch of the family. Ferré's
newest novel--Eccentric Neighborhoods, a fictionalized memoir complete with photographs--is not about the same family,
but it makes an excellent sequel to The House on the Lagoon.
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