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Loading... Lost in Oaxaca: A Novelby Jessica Winters Mireles
None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) judithrs | Apr 16, 2022 |  Camille is on a quest to find her protégé and bring her home for her concert that will pave the way for her to launch her career as a concert pianist. Young Graciela had fled to Oaxaca to help her sick mother so Camille headed there to find her. Camille had been a studying to be a pianist until an accident caused damage to her hand and ended her career. She now taught piano lessons and Graciela was her one hope of feeling like a winner again. Camille is totally out of her comfort zone on the bus trip to Oaxaca and when the bus is in an accident and she loses her passport and money, she is in over her head. She's befriended by a local man who takes her to his village so she can decide what to do next. She is definitely attracted to him but he isn't happy with her plan to take her student home and knows that it's more to help her feel like a success than it is for Graciela. This is a story of self-discovery, love and forgiveness with romance sprinkled in. It touches on issues like immigration and the life of un-documented workers in the US. I learned a lot about the people and the culture in this part of Mexico and found this book to be both entertaining as well as educational. I highly recommend this book! (  )1  susan0316 | Jun 28, 2020 | https://bookfare.blogspot.com/2020/04/foodfic-please-welcome-jessica-winters.htm... sroywork | Apr 24, 2020 | no reviews | add a review
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Once a promising young concert pianist, Camille Childs retreated to her mother's Santa Barbara estate after an injury to her hand destroyed her hopes for a musical career. She now leads a solitary life teaching piano, and she has a star student: Graciela, the daughter of her mother's Mexican housekeeper. Camille has been grooming the young Graciela for the career that she herself lost out on, and now Graciela, newly turned eighteen, has just won the grand prize in a piano competition, which means she gets to perform with the LA Philharmonic. Camille is ecstatic; if she can't play herself, at least as Graciela's teacher, she will finally get the recognition she deserves. But there are only two weeks left before the concert, and Graciela has disappeared--gone back to her family's village in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Desperate to bring Graciela back in time for the concert, Camille goes after her, but on the way there, a bus accident leaves her without any of her possessions. Alone and unable to speak the language, Camille is befriended by Alejandro, a Zapotec man who lives in LA but is from the same village as Graciela. Despite a contentious first meeting, Alejandro helps Camille navigate the rugged terrain and unfamiliar culture of Oaxaca, allowing her the opportunity to view the world in a different light--and perhaps find love in the process. No library descriptions found. |
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