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The Waves Take You Home
A General Fiction Novel by María Alejandra Barrios Vélez
Subgenres:
- Magical Realism,
- Family Saga,
- Second Chance Romance
This book is for you if you're into...
- Haunting family stories with literal ghosts guiding the journey
- Lush food writing woven into tales of homecoming
- Second-chance romance tangled with family legacy in Colombia
From Little Stack
If you enjoy magical realism and lush descriptions of food as much as I do, you’ll adore this book about Violeta, who left family, culture, and the young man she loved back in Columbia to fulfill her educational and artistic dreams in New York. But with her grandmother’s death, Violeta journeys back home, haunted by the old woman’s ghost, who keeps sending her messages. In Columbia, she’s faced with her family’s struggling restaurant and her future, not to mention a romance she thought was over. You’ll love entering her world with its rich descriptions of food and family.
In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny.
Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn't approve of him. Chasing dreams of education and art in New York City, and with a new love, twenty-eight-year-old Violeta establishes a new life for herself, on her terms. But when her grandmother suddenly dies, everything changes.
After years of being on her own in NYC, Violeta finds herself on a plane back to Colombia, accompanied at all times by the ghost of her grandmother who is sending her messages and signs, to find she is the heir of the failing family restaurant, the very one Abuela told her to run from in the first place. The journey leads her to rediscover her home, her grandmother, and even the flame of an old love.
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