Carry Me Like Water

<p><strong>Sentimental and ferocious upsetting and tender firmly magic-realist yet utterly modern. . . </strong><strong>Sáenz is a writer with greatness in him. --<em>San Diego Union Tribune</em></strong></p><p><strong>With <em>Carry Me Like Water</em> Benjamin Alire Sáenz unfolds a beautiful story about hope and forgiveness unexpected reunions an expanded definition of family and ultimately what happens when the disparate worlds of pain and privilege collide.</strong></p><p>Diego a deaf-mute is barely surviving on the border in El Paso Texas. Diego's sister Helen who lives with her husband in the posh suburbs of San Francisco long ago abandoned both her brother and her El Paso roots. Helen's best friend Lizzie a nurse in an AIDS ward begins to uncover her own buried past after a mystical encounter with a patient.</p><p>This immensely moving novel confronts divisions of race gender and class fusing together the stories of people who come to recognize one another from former lives they didn't know existed-- or that they tried to forget. <br/></p>