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Publishers Weekly Review

Doerr's long-awaited second novel--a four-week PW bestseller and one of PW 's best books of 1993--depicts four North Americans who settle in the Mexican countryside. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

/*STARRED REVIEW*/ It's been 10 years since Doerr dazzled us with Stones of Ibarra, a suitably long and reflective interlude considering that waiting is the theme of her lovely second novel. As Ursula Bowles, the senior member of a small group of Americans living in Mexico, observes, the Spanish word for waiting and hoping are one and the same, a truth Doerr explicates with subtlety and adroitness. Ursula, nearly 80 when the story begins, has returned to Mexico, the land of her childhood, to await her death. She and her daughter, Fran, purchase lots on the stark mesa of Amapolas after Fran meets Susanna Ames, a young, exquisite, and freshly divorced artist determined to let the gorgeous sky and untrammeled land of Mexico absorb her battered soul. To this end, she enters into a risky property deal with another American, a complete stranger on the lam from the IRS and eager to make a quick buck. Together, they buy the run-down family estate of Don Enrique Ortiz. Grace personified, Sue beautifies everything she comes in contact with, from failing gardens to starving children. Doerr, in prose as meticulous as knitting and warm and brilliant as sunlight, traces the interactions of the unusual Americans with the people of the village and creates a chain of incidents that, ultimately, celebrates every facet of life, from desire and love to despair and death. Doerr instills each of her memorable characters with great dignity and resilience, and bestows upon her entranced readers a deep sense of peace and wonder. (Reviewed June 1993)0151931038Donna Seaman

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Harriet Doerr was born Harriet Green Huntington on April 8, 1910 in Pasadena, California. She attended Smith College from 1927-1928 and Stanford University from 1928-1930, but left college when she got married. She received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1977.

She wrote her first novel, Stones for Ibarra, at the age of 73. It won the American Book Award for first fiction and was made into a television movie starring Glenn Close in 1988. Her other works include Consider This, Señora, and The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions. Her work also appeared in several anthologies and periodicals. She died on November 24, 2002 at the age of 92.

(Bowker Author Biography)