Name: Stones for Ibarra
ISBN: 9780140075625

Harriet Doerr

Richard and Sara Everton move to Ibarra, Mexico to reopen Richard's grandfather's copper mine and learn that Richard is dying of leukemia

Stones for Ibarra

Andrew John Kinney

Not as good as her other Mexico novel, Consider This, Senora, but a good one nonetheless.

Melody Izard

When I finished this book I dramatically clutched it to my heart as tears burst forth. I don't know why. I was prepared for the ending. We had been told from the beginning that Richard would die. Early, early in the book the floating, omnipotent narrator tells us Sara leaves Ibarra and returns to North America. But I still grabbed the book to try to save it. I wanted things to stay as they were. I wanted lazy Sundays and rich copper veins. I wanted the priests to circle round and round like coyotes trying to convert and keep out the Baptists. I wanted more hidden pagan cures tucked in the book pages. I needed bright moonlight and more fatherless children. There was an accident here! Please bring stones!

Stones for Ibarra

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