The Potbellied Virgin

by Alicia Yánez Cossío and Annabeth Albert

In an unnamed town in the Ecuadorian Andes, a small wooden icon-La Virgen Pipona (the Potbellied Virgin)-conceals the documents that define the town's social history. That history recently has been dominated by the women of the Benavides family, a conservative clan and, not coincidentally, the caretakers of the Virgin. Their rivals are the Pandos, a family led by four old men who spend their days smoking in the park across from the Virgin's cathedral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292714106
• ISBN13: 9780292714106
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"