Delia's Way

by Olga Berrocal Essex

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558852328
• ISBN13: 9781558852327
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Recommended After Oprah Read-Alike

I read this book because BOOKLIST recommended it as "After Oprah Read-Alike". I couldn't put it down and I found it superior to many Oprah Book Club selections. It's an elegant coming of age story set in Panama. It brings the Latin American culture to the reader in a gentle and accurate portrayal of a family with its conflicts and passions. This book reaches readers from teen age girls to adults with its exotic setting and compeling plot.

Recommended After Oprah Read-Alike

(...) I couldn't put it down and I found it superior to many Oprah Book Club selections. It's an elegant coming of age story set in Panama. It brings the Latin American culture to the reader in a gentle and accurate portrayal of a family with its conflicts and passions. This book reaches readers from teen age girls to adults with its exotic setting and compeling plot.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Delia's Way.

Essex has such a unique style of writing, that makes the reader feel like one of the characters in her book. Her book took me back to my youth, and I could relive those wonderful, care-free days! I spent two wonderful afternoons, feeling like a 16-year old girl, and that feeling stayed with me for quite a while. To me, it was a beautiful "trip to my roots": people, customs, traditions, some of them good, others sad, but still worth reliving them. This is one book that I wouldn't mind reading again and again!

A satisfyingly layered and textured novel

Delia's Way is a novel in which the sense of place is so textured and thick as to become a character in itself. Meanwhile the human characters are reassuring: Human, basically good, with realistic flaws, failings and secrets. A well-written and readable story.

A seductive evocation of growing up in the tropics

This book is an exploration of growing up in 1950's Panama told through the senses of a young girl. Essex beautifully depicts the sounds, smells and humid langour that surround her story of one girl's struggle to free herself from the chains of family secrets. Reading this book made me think about the tradition of pride and reserve in my own family and how I have been molded by this tradition. A quick, rewarding read.