Ghosts of the Heart
- ISBN-10
- 1494912953
- ISBN-13
- 9781494912956
- Category
- Mexican American women
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-01-05
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Lourdes Carrillo
Description
When Catherine Alexander discovers the body of Alice Balboa on the bathroom floor of a Los Angeles homeless shelter, she decides to honor her destitute friend with a memorial service. Catherine is a single woman of Mexican heritage who ruthlessly overcomes adversity, while Alice, born into Texas wealth, ironically ends her final years as a vagrant. As Catherine begins a desperate search for her friend's family her emotional journey into Alice's past takes her into the extravagant world of the Texas elite, a society plagued by racism, forcing Catherine to confront her own discarded past and the bigotry she has spent her life trying to escape. Catherine realizes she and Alice are, in every respect, negative images of one another. Alice stood up against racism and sacrificed everything for love, while Catherine ran away from her ethnicity and abandoned love for wealth. And while Alice had a difficult but rich life, a life full of love, Catherine's is singularly empty. Ghosts of the Heart is a tale of a Hispanic woman driven to succeed in America, who loses all that is precious to her. In order to find inner peace and love, Catherine must return to where she first became lost.
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