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After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano.
The Bird Hotel tells the story of this young American who, after suffering tragedy, restores and runs La Llorona. Along the way we meet a rich assortment of characters who live in the village or come to stay at the hotel. With a mystery at its center and filled with warmth, drama, romance, humor, pop culture, and a little magical realism, The Bird Hotel has all the hallmarks of a Joyce Maynard novel that have made her a leading voice of her generation.
The Bird Hotel is a big, sweeping story spanning four decades, offering lyricism as well as whimsy. While the world New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard brings to life on the page is rendered from her imagination, it's one informed by the more than twenty years of which she has spent a significant amount of her time in a small Mayan indigenous village in Guatemala.
As the New York Times said, "[Maynard] has an unswerving eye, a sharply perked ear, and the ability to keep her readers hanging on her words." People Magazine said of her: "Maynard's spare prose packs a rich emotional punch."
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- ISBN: 9781956763744
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- ISBN: 9781956763744
- File size: 1528 KB
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April 15, 2023
Raised by her grandmother after her free-spirited mother is presumed dead in a Weather Underground bombing, Irene has spent most of her life hiding her true identity. On the brink of suicide after losing her husband and young son, she boards a bus to Mexico and ultimately ends up in the tiny town of La Esperanza (a fictional stand-in for Maynard's home base on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala). She checks into La Llorona, a tumbledown hotel in a remote paradise run by American expat Leila. As the days become months, Irene begins to heal, and when Leila abruptly dies and leaves her the hotel, she finds a new purpose in restoring the property with the help of neighbors Gus and Dora. Setbacks in the form of natural disasters, betrayals, and the arrival of a detective seeking information about her mother's role in the long-ago bombing threaten but do not derail her new life. Maynard (Count the Ways, 2021) combines lush, evocative prose with elements of magic realism in this modern-day fairy tale about the power of love.COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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