Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins

Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins'Why hadn't she said to her daughter I love you beyond reason and none of this matters at all and every day that you breathe is a gift?' Rafaela Acuna y Daubon remembers everything that matters: her beautiful childhood in San Juan, her marriage to Peter, uprooting their children, Ruth and Benny, to the American Midwest, and losing all sense of her place in the world. So she tells no one when her memory begins to slip. Her daughter, in New York with a

horse tailer

fast-paced

It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successful' Julian NortonFrom the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia

or should be

crossing deserts

where emotions take on physical form

The Golden Swift

And a spine

Separated from her cousin and forced to work with the trickster Pan

Heartfelt and hilarious

She knows that if she ventures through that door

The author's meticulous approach to this field research work and her multiple consultations with First Nations people have resulted in a work of great practical value and of refined visual beauty