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“Magical realism allowed writers to capture truth—truth as they understood it.”
“He was a handsome artist; she was a pretty American.”
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“Up to that point, I had lived entirely removed from my birthplace in Colombia.”
“This literary tool adds elements of the fantastical in otherwise ordinary, realistic settings.”
“Esquivel and Allende soon gave way to One Hundred Years of Solitude , in which I discovered a family that was even stranger than my own.”
“When I was nearly two years old, my mother, exhausted from trying to live as a Colombian wife, took me back to the United States.”
“The same forces that propelled me to write to him were also what drew me to Latin American literature.”
“She is the award-winning author of Magical Realism for Non-Believers , What If a Fish , Meet Me Halfway , and The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore .”
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“They fell in love—or something like that—and she didn’t return to her home in Minnesota.”
“My father’s words…and the novels I was reading of food and family, love and regret seemed to come alive around me.”
“Later, when I began to write my own stories, elements of magical realism seeped into my writing, an echo of both my voracious reading and my lived experience.”
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“I compared these facts with the grainy photos I found in my mother’s albums.”
“Next I read Laura Esquivel’s Like Water For Chocolate and I could taste the sadness of wedding cake in her words, even though I knew, logically, that emotions didn’t have a flavor and babies weren’t that easily mistaken.”