Treasures in Heaven: A Novel

This last installment in Alcal 's trilogy of loosely linked novels, which began with the award-winning Spirits of the Ordinary and The Flower in the Skull, resumes the story of well-born Estela and her young son, No. Escaping the scandal surrounding her family and fugitive husband, Estela and No leave their small town for a new life in turn-of-the-century Mexico City. Both become involved in the birth of Mexico's social revolution, coming of age in a corrupt society where the rich enjoy material treasures, the wise enjoy spiritual treasures and the poor must wait for their "treasures in heaven." --Publisher's Weekly

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