Pillars of Gold and Silver by Beatriz de la Garza
By Beatriz de la Garza
She misses the comforts and facilities of the U.S. and she or he speaks little Spanish, making it tough to engage along with her grandmother or with the local young children. notwithstanding, on the older woman’s prodding, Blanca Estela overcomes her reluctance to affix within the city children’s video games. For the younger lady, those basic pursuits open a door to a different international, one other tradition, one other language.
Blanca Estela quickly delights within the wonder of speaking together with her newly-acquired Spanish. She additionally learns approximately love and friendship, every one observed by way of either pleasure and the unhappiness of separation. progressively she discovers in Revilla a house clear of home.
Blanca Estela realizes that she is going to always remember the previous city whose stone homes shimmer below the sunshine of the solar and moon like “pillars of gold and silver.”
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