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This novel tells the stories of people who have connections to one another that they never knew before. Diego, a deaf-mute, is living on the border in El Paso, Texas. His sister, Helen, who lives in the suburbs of San Francisco, has abandoned him and her El Paso roots. Lizzie, a nurse in an AIDS ward, has a mystical encounter with a patient that leads her to discover her own buried past. The novel explores the connections these three people have to one another and the ways their pasts have affected their lives.
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. 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. With
Carry Me Like Water, Benjamin Alire Senz 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.
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