User:Mromocarmona/Send My Roots Rain

Send My Roots Rain (a novel) Send My Roots Rain is a novel by the Cuban-born author, Ibis Gómez-Vega (b. 1952). It was published in 1991 by Aunt Lute Books in San Francisco, and was the First Runner-up in the 1990 Spinsters/Aunt Lute Fiction Context. The summary on the back cover reads: "An urban artist running from her past becomes the unwitting catalyst that exposes an entire town’s legacy of guilt. Carole Rio arrives in a small Texas border town to paint murals in a church— a church, she finds, that no longer exists. In discovering the history of the town’s curse, she faces the source of her own terrifying nightmares and her previous inability to love. Memory and the land form potent ties that bind the diverse characters in their various roles as artist, priest, prostitute, lovers and friends. This desert romance explores the power of unexpected change that can heal and transform lives."

Tee Corinne contributed the following blurb: "An intriguing, compelling story-- well told."

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