Carry Me Like Water - Softcover

Saenz, Benjamin Alire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747252513 ISBN 13: 9780747252511

Publisher: Headline Review, 1996

Synopsis

This immensely moving novel confronts divisions of race, gender, and class, fusing together the stories of people who come to recognize one another from former lives they didn't know existed -- or that they tried to forget. Diego, a deaf-mute, is barely surviving on the border in El Paso, Texas. Diego's sister, Helen, who lives with her husband in the posh suburbs of San Francisco, long ago abandoned both her brother and her El Paso roots. Helen's best friend, Lizzie, a nurse in an AIDS ward, begins to uncover her own buried past after a mystical encounter with a patient.

With Carry Me Like Water, Benjamin Alire Saenz unfolds a beautiful story about hope and forgiveness, unexpected reunions, an expanded definition of family, and, ultimately, what happens when the disparate worlds of pain and privilege collide.

About this title

About the Author

Benjamin Alire Saenz is the author of In Perfect Light, Carry Me Like Water, and House of Forgetting, as well as the author of several children's books. He won the American Book Award for his collection of poems Calendar of Dust. Saenz is the chair of the creative writing department at the University of Texas-El Paso.

Edition details

• Publisher: Headline Review
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747252513
• ISBN 13: 9780747252511
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 503