Publishers Weekly, July 22nd, 2002
Yuma, Ariz., on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1950. Nine-year-old Nancy Farmer works at the desk of her family's hotel, surrounded by truck drivers, fruit packers, cowboys, railroad workers, even Grand Ole Opry singers. She stays up until 1 a.m. listening to their stories and learning to play cards. Little does she know that the seeds of a future novelist are being planted.
Fast forward to an unspecified year in the future, the setting of her forthcoming novel, The House of the Scorpion (Atheneum/Jackson, Oct.). What was once Yuma, Ariz., is now contained within the country of Opium, run by Matte...
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