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profound and perfect things
“A moving story about the complex love between sisters, Profound and Perfect Things takes the reader on a deeply felt journey into the meaning of family for a new generation of Latinas in search of their American dream.”
—Ruth Behar, author of Lucky Broken Girl
“This poignant tale of two sisters from South Texas—the ‘smart one’ and ‘the pretty one,’ the closeted lesbian who departs for law school and the married homemaker who stays, gets to the heart of what ‘home’ means. Isa and Cristina are first-generation newcomers in Rio Chico but Americana in Mexico; they’re bound to tradition even as they test its limits. Maribel Garcia writes with warmth, wit, and wisdom about the family that helps and hinders these women, who are revealed by what they hide.”
—Elizabeth Mosier, author of My Life as a Girl, The Playgroup, and Excavating Memory: Archeology and Home
“In this portrayal of sisters' intersecting lives, Maribel Garcia's Profound and Perfect Things questions the so-called singularity of experience and enfleshes the connections that make us whole. As a sister myself, I recognize the familiar competition and envy that drives these characters and their ultimate reconciliation to which the conditions of their existence have led. An honest and searing look at sisters that follows books such as Marie Vieux Chauvet's Love, Anger, Madness in its refusal to flinch.”
—Harriet Levin Millan, author of How Fast Can You Run, a novel based on the Life of Michael Majok Kuch
“Profound and Perfect Things, told with honesty and heart, will connect universally with everyone. No reader will be able to keep this mesmerizing family saga at a distance—either psychologically or emotionally.”
—Diana Y. Paul, author of Things Unsaid
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“In Profound and Perfect Things, author Maribel Garcia ponders the question, what do we owe the people we love most? In her moving meditation on time, loss and identity, Garcia explores the corrosive power of long-held secrets and haunting truths in a novel so richly atmospheric you can see the shimmer of asphalt mirages and feel the crushing heat of the South Texas landscape.”
— Liane Kupferberg Carter, author of Ketchup Is My Favorite Vegetable: A FamilyGrows Up With Autism, named an Outstanding Book of the Year by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
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