TY - BOOK AU - Benítez,Sandra TI - A place where the sea remembers: a novel T2 - Scribner Paperback Fiction SN - 9780671892678 (pbk) AV - PS3552.E5443 P53 1993 U1 - 813.54 B44 23 PY - 1993/// CY - New York, NY, USA PB - Simon & Schuster Inc. KW - Parent and child KW - Fiction KW - Villages KW - Mexico KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcsh N1 - Originally published by Coffee House Press; CAS; CBA; CoED; COECS; CHS N2 - A Place Where the Sea Remembers is a mesmerizing tale of love and anger, hope and tragedy. At the heart of this rich and bewitching story is Chayo, the flower-seller, and her husband Candelario, the salad-maker, who finally may be blessed with the child they thought they would never have. Their cause for happiness, however, triggers a series of events that marks the lives of everyone in the small village of Santiago, Mexico. Woven into Chayo's and Candelario's story are an unforgettable array of characters: Marta, the hotel maid who reads cast-off American magazines and dreams of El Paso; don Justo, the heartbroken fortune-teller; Esperanza, the midwife who finds new love with Rafael, the shy schoolteacher. Their secret dreams and desires are known only to the omniscient sea and to the curandera Remedios, a healer who hears them all UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1304/93025176-d.html ER -