In their very brief review of Castañeda's Among the Volcanoes, Diane Roback and Richard Donahue describe a novel that offers the reader a "quietly realistic portrait" of a girl struggling to make a life for herself in contemporary Central America.
In Guatemala, life is both simpler and harder for teenagers than in the U.S. Isabel Pacay wants to go to school and become a teacher, but not only is her family very poor, no one in the village, not even her boyfriend, seems to see beyond tradition. When her mother.....
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