Delmira is brought up by her mother and grandmother in an unaffectionate all-female household. She has a wicked sense of humour and a vivid imagination. Agustini, her home village, is not an ordinary place: it is a world in which Delmira sees her grandmother floating above the bed when she sleeps; where stones turn into water; where torrential rains can be bought at a travelling fair during the dry season; and where her family's elderly serving woman develops a stigmata, then disappears.
As Delmira grows into a woman she embarks on a quest to find the missing stranger who is her father, and makes a decision that forces her to leave home forever.
Carmen Boullosa's novel sparkles with the spirit of its irrepressible heroine and the invention of a fairy tale. Like a magical dream, Leaving Tabasco, will stay with its readers long after they have woken from its spell.
- ISBN10 0802116841
- ISBN13 9780802116840
- Publish Date 31 March 2001
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Grove/Atlantic
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 244
- Language English