{"product_id":"9780679742586","title":"Caramelo","description":"The celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eThe House on Mango Street\u003c\/i\u003e gives us an extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing originality: a multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy–the very stuff of life.\u003cbr\u003eLala Reyes’ grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl, makers. The striped caramelo rebozo is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala’s possession. The novel opens with the Reyes’ annual car trip–a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels–from Chicago to “the other side”: Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family’s stories, separating the truth from the “healthy lies” that have ricocheted from one generation to the next. We travel from the Mexico City that was the “Paris of the New World” to the music-filled streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties–and, finally, to Lala’s own difficult adolescence in the not-quite-promised land of San Antonio, Texas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaramelo\u003c\/i\u003e is a romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes imagined. Vivid, funny, intimate, historical, it is a brilliant work destined to become a classic: a major new novel from one of our country’s most beloved storytellers.\u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, she has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Lannan Foundation Literary Award and the American Book Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. Cisneros is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe House on Mango Stree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003et\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLoose Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWoman Hollering Creek and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, and a children's book, \u003ci\u003eHairs\/Pelitos\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016848130288,"sku":"9780679742586","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679742586_p0.jpg?v=1769898813","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679742586","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}