Celaya (Lala) – The narrator, and self-appointed family historian, Lala tells the story of the extended Reyes family, including a rich explanation of her parents' marriage and the surprising tale of how her "Awful Grandmother" (Soledad) met and married her "Little Grandfather" (Narciso) in Mexico.It was shortlisted for the 2004 International Dublin Literary Award. The novel could also be called a Bildungsroman, as it focuses on Lala's development from childhood onward.
Because Cisneros also has six brothers and her family moved frequently when she was a child, the novel is semi-autobiographical. The main character, Lala, is the only girl in a family of seven children and her family often travels between Chicago and Mexico City. It was inspired by her Mexican heritage and childhood in the barrio of Chicago, Illinois. Vivid, funny, intimate, historical, it is a brilliant work destined to become a classic: a major novel from one of our country's most beloved storytellers.Caramelo is a 2002 epic novel spanning a hundred years of Mexican history by American author Sandra Cisneros. We travel from the Mexico City that was the "Paris of the New World" to the music-filled streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, and finally to Lala's own difficult adolescence in the not-quite-promised land of San Antonio, Texas.Ĭaramelo is a vital, wise, romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes imagined. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family's stories, separating the truth from the "healthy lies" that have ricocheted from one generation to the next. The novel opens with the Reyes' annual car trip, a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels, from Chicago to "the other side": Mexico City. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala's possession. Lala Reyes' grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl makers.
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