{"product_id":"first-confession-9780393308471","title":"First Confession","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMexican-American writer Fontes tells a startling tale of the clashes between men and women, rich and poor, Mexican and American in this dark story of life just south of the Texas border.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through the eyes of [the] small heroine, a wicked but touchingly vulnerable little girl . . . \u003cem\u003eFirst Confession\u003c\/em\u003e enjoys a robust plot and multidimensional characters. . . . Fontes's greatest talent, though, is her ability to see and define the world through the senses of a child.\" -- Philadelphia Inquirer\u003cbr\u003e\"Simmering first novel. . . . Writing with a vivid sense of character, class, culture, and place, Fontes has produced a novel as nasty, compelling and horrendous as childhood itself.\" -- San Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\"Montserrat Fontes has listened to the rhythms that connect two languages, and divined a voice like nothing I've read before: Carson McCullers with a Spanish accent. \u003cem\u003eFirst Confession\u003c\/em\u003e invited me into the rich, dark place where life reveals itself to wide-eyed children, and it kept talking to me for a long time after I'd turned the final page.\" -- Barbara Kingsolver\u003cbr\u003e\"A splendid tour de force. I picked the book up and could not put it down. . . . She renders the border-life in all its stark and realistic darkness. . . . The children, Andrea and Victor, are alive and full of light, carrying in their hearts a bit of each of us.\" -- Jimmy Santiago Boca","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525132755287,"sku":"9780393308471","price":16.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/first-confession-9780393308471","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}