Gringos
by Charles Portis | 
Avenue of Mysteries
by John Irving | 
Stones for Ibarra
by Harriet Doerr | 
A Place Where the Sea Remembers
by Sandra Benitez | 
Esperanza's Box of Saints
by Maria Amparo Escandon |
The Law of Love
by Laura Esquivel |
American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins | 
Ultimate Prizes
by Susan Howatch | 
The Rise of Life on Earth
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Blue Movie
by Terry Southern | 
Dead Languages
by David Shields | 
Puffball
by Fay Weldon | 
Continental Drift
by Russell Banks | 
A Fool's Alphabet
by Sebastian Faulks | 
Strong Motion
by Jonathan Franzen | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
Anne of Windy Poplars
by Lucy Maud Montgomery | 
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes | 
Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson |
Guadalupe Magdalena Molina Vasquez -- wife, scoundrel, courtesan, mother -- is full of contradictions: she believes in love but is suspicious of men; she rejects religion but admires the Virgin Mary; she respects tradition while breaking all the rules. Here, in the Golden Zone of Teatan, Mexico, Magda tells her extraordinary life story -- from a poor Mexican barrio to American affluence, from wide-eyed childhood to worldly courtesan life, from full-blooded youth to oncoming blindness -- and bewitchingly imparts the hard-earned wisdom she has gained through the years.