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Another gorgeous novella of love, loss, and history - this time with mothers and daughters.

I'm really on a roll with these powerful short reads.

On a student scholarship from India to Mexico, Bonita is accosted in a park square by a flamboyant woman claiming to recognise her as the daughter of an old friend, Rosarita. As Bonita reflects upon the oppressed life of her mother in India, she struggles to reconcile her memories with the image of the free-spirited artist described by the woman she comes to think of as The Trickster.
Short and evocatively written, with few certainties. 3½⭐

"All the benches in the Jardín facing the pink spikes and spires of the Parroquia are already taken by lovers of the morning sun, but you find one set back under the meticulously trimmed and shaped trees you are told are Indian laurels, where you can sit making your way at leisure through the Spanish-language newspapers you have bought from the vendor who spreads out a variety of them on the low wall that surrounds the Jardín."