| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
422 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Book one: The succulent garden -- Book two: Fourth of July -- Book three: Circus californianus. |
| Summary |
After the husband and wife that she works for disappear, live-in maid Araceli takes their two boys on a journey through sprawling Los Angeles to locate their grandfather. Araceli is the live-in maid in the Torres-Thompson household?one of three Mexican employees in a Spanish-style house with lovely views of the Pacific. She has been responsible strictly for the cooking and cleaning, but the recession has hit, and suddenly Araceli is the last Mexican standing?unless you count Scott Torres, though you?d never suspect he was half Mexican but for his last name and an old family photo with central L.A. in the background. The financial pressure is causing the kind of fights that even Araceli knows the children shouldn?t hear, and then one morning, after a particularly dramatic fight, Araceli wakes to an empty house?except for the two Torres-Thompson boys, little aliens she?s never had to interact with before. Their parents are unreachable, and the only family member she knows of is Señor Torres, the subject of that old family photo. If she only knew.... |
| Subject |
Women household employees -- Fiction.
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California, Southern -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780374108991 hardback |
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0374108994 hardback |
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