Delia´s Crossing

Monday, August 29, 2011

I am back to doing nothing, the days are long and monotonous.  I finished reading the book E sent me and was excited and sad to have finished it.  When he first told me he was sending me a fiction book I wasn’t thrilled about the matter since I am an avid reader but don’t care much for fiction.  I read it partly because my husband had been considerate enough to send me a book and partly because I need things that will help the time pass a little faster.  Fate had it in its path to send this book my way.  The story is of a young girl who lives in Mexico after the death of her parents in a car accident she is sent to live with her well off aunt in Palm Springs California.  When she arrives to the U.S. she is faced with the hardships of adapting to a new place with new people and a language she is not familiar with.  She experiences hardships beyond belief and eventually decides to head back to Mexico to be with her very poor and ailing grandmother, only to arrive to the sad fate that her grandmother had died during her journey home.  There were so many ways in which I related to the main character Delia and hope that like her, I too can find strength and my way “home”.

“This walk I began with my grandmother was the start of a long journey that would take me from my home and my friends in ways I could never have imagined.  I was kidnapped by cruel fate and condemned to be a prisoner of destiny beyond my control.  Even the simplest choice would be denied me.  I would loose everything…Essentially, when I left here, all I would have would be my name, Delia Yebarra, and even keeping that would become a challenge.”

-V.C. Andrews, Delia’s Crossing