The Heavens Weep for Us

If You Enjoy Jhumpa Lahiri'S Short Stories Or Sandra Cisneros' Ability To Portray Ordinary Hispanic Characters With Engaging Authenticity And Universality You'Ll Enjoy Thelma Reyna'S Twelve Stories In This Thoughtful Moving Sensitive Book. From The Sheer Poetry Of The Title Story To The Complex Depiction Of A Comatose Woman And Her Guilt-Ridden Unfaithful Husband Reyna Exposes The Private Griefs And Losses We All Experience In Life And Imbues Her Motley Cast Of Characters With Deep Humanity Courage And Perseverance . Reyna'S Style Is Alternately Quiet And Intense Yet Always Insightful Poetic And Literary. Have A Box Of Kleenex And A Dictionary By Your Side. She'Ll Leave You Thinking And Discovering Multiple Layers Of Meanings In Her Stories Long After You'Ve Read Them. A Hispanic-American Author Reyna'S Stories Speak To All Of Us Across Ethnicities Age Gender And Social Status.