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"Como agua para chocolate" follows Tita, a young girl whose longing for her lover Pedro is thwarted by her mother’s adherence to a family tradition: the youngest daughter must remain unmarried and tend to her mother until death. Tita finds her voice in the kitchen, where she cooks and, through the use of magical realism, brings the ordinary and the supernatural together. The novel, written by Laura Esquivel, blends themes of love, family duty, and culinary art within a Mexican setting.
First publish date: 1989
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Laura Esquivel
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