Tales from the Town of Widows, (Paperback)

from shushokan

Sex. Sex, sex, sex and more sex. Brief or sordid or sad, hopeful, youthful or entrepreneurial. This is not a sexy book but the subject does come up once or twice (or indeed more). Strangely (or maybe not) the only tender encounters are between two men or two women. The stories of the women's live...

from yooperprof

Interesting take on gender in Latin America, a gentle fantasy with a satisfying tone of hopefulness. Bold and adventurous for a first novel!

from kcaroth1

In a small, poor village, all of the men are taken away by rebel groups. This novel details the way that the women, individually, and collectively, deal with their lives in the absence of men. In alternate chapers, we read see short scenes of the men away from the village. I enjoyed some of the i...