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    The Heiress of Water: A Novel

    By Sandra Rodriguez Barron

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    When young Monica Winters Borrero loses her luminous mother in an accident at sea, she is exiled from the tropical paradise that was her home. Grieving and cut off from a life among El Salvador's elite, Monica and her American father move to Connecticut, vowing never to look back.

    Years later, an intriguing stranger, who has endured a terrible loss of his own, enters Monica's life, bearing an unusual request. Monica is propelled back to her lost world, retracing the shadowy last days of her mother, a marine scientist who had been on the brink of understanding the therapeutic applications of a rare, venomous sea creature. Now, her research is being corrupted by a secret clinic that claims the power to restore consciousness to the comatose.

    What Monica discovers will shatter the family's delicate truce with the past, and compel everyone involved to challenge their deepest notions of what it means to be alive. Atmospheric, thought-provoking, and timely. The Heiress of Water is a stunning parable of paradise lost and found.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 28, 2010
    ISBN9780062041548
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    The Heiress of Water: A Novel
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    Sandra Rodriguez Barron

    Sandra Rodriguez Barron is the author of The Heiress of Water, winner of the International Latino Book Award for debut fiction. The recipient of a Bread Loaf Fellowship and a National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Grant, she was born in Puerto Rico, lived in the Dominican Republic and El Salvador, and now lives with her family in Connecticut.

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    • 2/5
      OK, I really, really wanted to like this book. But I found it enragingly implausible and boring. I felt no connection whatsoever to the characters. It was predictable. It was trite. It was a waste of my time and money.
    • 4/5
      This novel, set in a fictional place called 'Negrarena' (loosely based on a place called Playa El Cuco on the eastern shore of El Salvador) makes for excellent reading. It deals with the use of a synthetic cone shell toxin, SDX-71 based on a natural conotoxin from 'Conus exelmaris', which unfortunately and unlike the toxin from 'Conus furiosus', produces a variety of adverse effects that can linger on indefinitely including "tunnel vision, hallucinations, delerium, paranoia, suicide, and self-mutilation". In the novel, the toxin is administered by injection intrathecally into the spinal fluid in an attempt to restore consciousness to a subject in long-term coma - and with some success. But the claimed 'successes' of this treatment have to be measured against the potentially disastrous long-term consequences. But dont't be put off by these scientific comments. The novel is much more than this. It is about tender human interactions between the characters and the tensions that arise through these personal attractions. A thoughtful, well researched and engaging novel. I recommend it to you.