Delmira sees birds fall from the sky while grandmother floats in the air in `Leaving Tabasco'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: April 11, 2001| Author: Santiago, Fabiola | Copyright information

"Leaving Tabasco" by Carmen Boullosa. Translated by Geoff Hargreaves.

(Grove, $24, 244 pages)

Mexico's Carmen Boullosa is a luminous writer, so it's not surprising that her new novel is a delightful coming-of-age tale filled with the kind of exulting magical realism that seemed to have run its course in Latin American literature.

But Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic _ her last translated novel "They're Cows, We're Pigs" delivered t...

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