ABOUT Gabriela and The Widow Winner Best Women’s Fiction

Dante Mueller reviews Gabriela and The Widow–audio version:

5.0 out of 5 starsAn Inspired Novel; Reader Gives Light to Its Multiple Layers

ByDante Mueller on April 18, 2017

Format: Kindle Edition

This is an inspired novel, and Annette Romano, the reader, gives light to its many layers. I recommend savoring the audio in short sections, for the dying widow’s recitation of her refulgent life to nineteen-year-old Gabriela is so rich in detail and connotation that her diurnal pacing recommends an optimal listening experience. “I’m speaking in metaphors, child. One of these days you’ll learn the subtleties of masked discourse when you say one thing and mean another. The French insist that to be an educated and cultured person you must master the art of never saying what you mean.” “Gabriela and the Widow” is that rare work of literary fiction that wills the reader to return yet again for a deeper insight into La Viuda’s soul, immortalized by its author’s inestimable imagination and fired by his lyrical prose.

Gabriela and The Widow: Montaigne Medal Finalist, Eric Hoffer Award

Congratulations. As part of the Eric Hoffer Award, your book was nominated for the Montaigne Medal. Your book is still on track for a category prize, including the Hoffer Grand Prize. The Montaigne Medal is an additional distinction, awarded to the most thought-provoking books. Approximately two to three books receive this award each year. A partial list of Montaigne finalists is below. Regardless of the judges’ determination, your book at the very least will carry the distinction of “Montaigne Medal Finalist.”available here

Gabriela and The Widow is the winner in  the “Best Women’s Fiction”.

“She loves the lost ones, the pretty ones, the hungry ones.”
(from The Cosmology)

Book of the Year Award–Finalist 2014

From the opening:

And She Left the Dying World

“The year the war ended, Gabriela led her sick mother out of Tepeñixtlahuaca. The bones of the villagers still had meat on them then and the hearths still had fire in them but the retreating soldiers had chased away the skinny dogs and burned the houses. Scattered in the jungle, the bodies of young women had been left to rot. The young men had been killed or turned into soldiers who had, in their own time, committed atrocities.”

From the Publisher:
Gabriela and The Widow is currently available on Amazon.com. The novel is also available in multiple eBook and 6×9 trade paperback editions on BN.com, the European Amazons and Amazon Japan. Wholesale orders can be placed through info@coffeetownpress.com, Baker & Taylor or Ingram. Libraries can purchase books through Follett Library Resources or Midwest Library Service.

Audio Interview by Bill Thompson

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