Tan Lejos de Dios = So Far from God

Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo's hands, however, it stands wondrously revealed as a place teeming with life and with all manner of collisions: the past with the present, the real with the supernatural, the comic with the horrific, the Native American with the Latino and the Anglo, and the women with the men. With her talkative, intimate voice and stylistic narrative freedom, Castillo relates the story of two crowded decades in the life of a Chicano family.

"Engaging . . . the author tells an important story and she tells it with inventiveness and verve."--Washington Post Book World

Author: Ana Castillo
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 09/01/1999
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.32w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780452280045
Language: Spanish

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.4
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 41478 / So Far from God


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/1999

About the Author
Ana Castillo is the author of the novels The Mixquiahuala Letters, Sapogonia, So Far From God, and a collection of poetry, My Father was a Toltec and Selected Poems. She has received an American Book Award, a Carl Sandburg Award, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in fiction and poetry. Castillo lives in Chicago with her son, Marcel.