Peel My Love Like an Onion

Peel My Love Like an Onion

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A novel on a plucky flamenco dancer in Chicago. It follows her from her rise to fame despite a crippled leg from polio, to her descent as the polio returns, her two lovers abandon her and she is reduced to working in a sweatshop. But Carmen will recoup. By the author of So Far from God. via Worldcat.org


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This was a very good love story interlaced with music and dancing. I liked how Carmen learned to find her own voice and dignity.

April 14, 2010

loved it - so sensual....perfecto!

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