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    The zigzag way / Anita Desai.
    by Desai, Anita, 1937-
    Chatto & Windus, c2004.
    Call #:FICTION DES
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  • Americans -- Mexico -- Fiction.
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  • Mines and mineral resources -- Fiction.
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  • All Souls' Day -- Fiction.
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  • Grandparents -- Fiction.
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  • Historians -- Fiction.
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  • Cornwall (England : County) -- Fiction.
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  • Mexico -- Fiction.
    • ISBN: 
    0701177438 (2004 Chatto & Windus)
    0618042156 (2004 Houghton Mifflin)
    Description: 
    182 p. ; 21 cm.
    Summary: 
    Set in mythical, lush Mexico, a young American stumbles upon an unlikely path to self-discovery. Eric is a newly minted historian just out of graduate school, unsure of his past choices and future options. With no clear direction, he follows his lover, Em, when she travels to the Yucatan for her scientific research, but he ends up alone in this foreign place. And so he pursues his own private quest, tracing his family's history to a Mexican ghost town, where, a hundred years earlier, young Cornish miners toiled to the death. With vivid sympathy, Desai conjures the struggles of Eric's grandparents and their community. Now, in place of the Cornish workers, the native Huichol Indians suffer the cruelty of the mines. When he inquires into their lives, Eric provokes the ire of their self-appointed savior, Doña Vera. Known as the "Queen of the Sierra," Doña Vera is the widow of a mining baron who has dedicated her fortune to preserving the Huichol culture. But her formidable presence belies a dubious past. The zigzag paths of these characters converge on the Day of the Dead, bringing together past and present in a moment of powerful epiphany.
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    Psychological fiction.
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