La heredera del mar. (The Heiress Water)

Reviewed by LJ 8/15/06 -- Críticas, 6/15/2008

Rodríguez-Barron, Sandra.U.S.: Rayo: HarperCollins & Planeta. 2008. 333p. ISBN 978-0-06-155505-3. pap. $13.95. FICTION

Monica Winters Borrero is a child of mismatched parents: her father is a liberal, romantic American journalist and her mother a cold, beautiful, and rebellious Salvadoran. Monica’s early years in the paradise of upper-class El Salvador are idyllic. Then, in 1985, the civil war comes too close, and her mother disappears, presumably drowned. Years later, Monica is living in the United States and working as a physical therapist when she encounters Will Lucero, the grieving husband of comatose Yvette. The three end up at a clinic in El Salvador that promises Yvette a treatment that comes from the venom of a sea creature. As Monica and Will work together to investigate the mysterious clinic and its ties to secrets from Monica’s past, they fall in love and discover the connection of the women of Monica’s family to the ocean and its creatures. Like her heroine, first-time novelist Barron has a Salvadoran mother and knows the country of which she writes. Recommended for larger public libraries and general bookstores. 

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