Water for the Cactus Woman

by Christine Stoddard

Water for the Cactus Woman is an uncannily familiar story about first unrequited love: that of madre absent and grieving and that of abuela prematurely gone but hauntingly present as torrential silence and forlornness--and that of many madres/abuelas before and that of many madres/abuelas after. Water for the Cactus Woman is "a coyote's last cry before the hunter's bullet" is "a drippy desert watercolor" is "a dewdrop of hope." It is a cactus split...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1947980270
• ISBN13: 9781947980273
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"