where can i find a summery on " A place where the sea remembers?"?

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this is an novel by Sandra benitez

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A Place Where the Sea Remembers is a haunting tale of love and anger, hope and tragedy, filled with characters who will linger long after the last page has been turned. At the heart of the story is Chayo, the flower-seller, and her husband, Candelario, the salad-maker, who may finally be blessed with the child they thought they would never have. But their cause for happiness triggers a chain of events that marks the lives of everyone in the Mexican village of Santiago. Their hopes, triumphs, shortcomings and failures form an indelible impression of a world in which destiny can hinge on the smallest of actions."

"Ok, some people looked at the book, and decided that it was just a bad book. Some read the first chapter or two, and put it down because it seems stupid. I recommend you pick up this book, and read the whole thing. It has a great story line and plot, and was written a very creative way. Each chapter is from a different person point of view, but they are all linked together, and make the book go in the same pace, and picks up where it left off with the next person. The character Remedios seems to not belong, and make the book seem kind of messed up and confusing, and the random Spanish words make it seem like it would be hard to read at first. But it's an easy read, and if you don’t pay too much attention to Remedios' chapters, it makes it better.

The book has so many plots and areas, that it is hard to just give a small description of the story. But the main point across from the book is of a girl who is a teen, and was raped, became pregnant. Her brother in-law promised her that they would take the baby, for he has been promoted to the salad maker in the town. But when they have a baby coming of there own, her sister doesn't want to take hers any more. So she gets mad, and goes and puts a spell on her sister’s son. There’s hard feelings going between the two throughout the story, and her sister thinks the curse is still there after 4 years. But she takes care of her own child, and learns to deal with the fact he came from a rape. But by the end, there’s a twist of fate."

Latina writer Benitez begins her excellent debut novel with a painful event--the wait for a drowned body to float to shore--and works backwards, retracing the myriad, seemingly insignificant steps that led to the character's death. As in Like Water for Chocolate , this novel sympathetically explores the lives of Mexican women caught in a mystical, fatalistic world. Chayo, a flower seller, and her sister Marta, a chambermaid, live in a poverty-stricken village by the sea. When 15-year-old Marta is raped and becomes pregnant, seemingly barren Chayo and her husband, Candelario, agree to take the child. Soon after, however, Chayo discovers that she too is expectant and reneges on the promise. Livid, Marta arranges with el brujo , the witch doctor, to put a curse on her sister's child. Both women bear sons, and a remorseful Marta tells her sister about the curse, which she claims to have had removed by la curandera , the healer. But when Chayo's son almost dies after being bitten by fire ants, the sisters' relationship once more deteriorates and, inexorably, the tragedy presaged in the book's opening chapter comes to pass. Benitez's unsparing vision into the stark realities of village residents' lives offers a poignant counterpoint to superficial vacation snapshots of Mexico. "

In A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Sandra Benitez invites us into a mesmerizing world filled with, love and betrayal, tragedy and hope. This rich and bewitching story is a bittersweet portrait of the people in Santiago, a Mexican village by the sea.
Chayo, the flower seller, and her husband Candelario, the salad maker, are finally blessed with the child they thought they would never have. Their cause for happiness, however, triggers a chain of events that impact the lives of everyone in their world.
The hopes, triumphs, failures, and shortcomings of the
novel's enchanting array of characters create a graceful picture of life that is both a universal portrait and an insider's look at life in Latin America.