A National Book Award Finalist for Fiction
Set in the Texas/Mexico border country in the years from 1944 to the present, The River Beyond the World is the story of two women on the edge of sexual, moral, political, and spiritual divides. Luisa Cantú is a girl from a Sierra Madre mountain village. After being impregnated in a fertility ritual of ancient origin, she leaves Mexico to work in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as a housemaid for Mrs. Eddie Hatch, a woman with a strong will and a narrow worldview. Their complex relationship—by turns mystical and pragmatic, serious and comic—reveals the many ways human beings can wound one another, the nature of love and sacrifice, and the possibility of forgiveness.
https://www.gandhi.com.mx/a6e8012a-5448-3366-b8bf-ace6aed316f42957093The River Beyond the World<p><strong>A National Book Award Finalist for Fiction</strong></p>
<p>Set in the Texas/Mexico border country in the years from 1944 to the present, <em>The River Beyond the World</em> is the story of two women on the edge of sexual, moral, political, and spiritual divides. Luisa Cantú is a girl from a Sierra Madre mountain village. After being impregnated in a fertility ritual of ancient origin, she leaves Mexico to work in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as a housemaid for Mrs. Eddie Hatch, a woman with a strong will and a narrow worldview. Their complex relationship—by turns mystical and pragmatic, serious and comic—reveals the many ways human beings can wound one another, the nature of love and sacrifice, and the possibility of forgiveness.</p>https://kbimages1-a.akamaihd.net/Images/bb389ac2-f239-435a-8ccd-4a8e3296a125/300/300/False/image.jpg176instock2031761327000https://www.gandhi.com.mx/media/catalog/product/2022-02-27T10:43:05+0000FIC019000Janet PeeryEpub 3FIC019000