Cristina Bendek And Translated By Robin Myers: Salt Crystals [2022] paperback Condition:New until another gem is formed

until another gem is formed in the distant mountains

A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet

Not long after

the local anti-Treaty IRA leader

when machinations outside of her control lead her to London

Cristina Bendek And Translated By Robin Myers: Salt Crystals [2022] paperback Condition:New until another gem is formedSan Andres rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia but closer to Nicaragua, the largest island in an archipelago claimed by the Spanish, colonized by the Puritans, worked by slaves, and home to Arab traders, migrants from the mainland, and the descendents of everyone who came before. For Victoria whose origins on the island go back generations, but whose identity is contested by her accent, her skin color, her years far away the sun burned