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What They Said About Luisa Reviewed by Bee Lindy of Bookpleasures.com
- By Bee Lindy
- Published September 26, 2024
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View all articles by Bee LindyAuthor: Erika Rummel
Publisher: Dundurn Press
ISBN: 978-1459752771
“From time to time I
looked up at the wooden crosses of the poor and the mausoleums of the
rich, the final resting place of the dead and a fitting place to
contemplate for a priest who must have no stake in this world. A
ghost rose up, or so it appeared to me for a moment – a black
figure, a silhouette backlit by the afternoon sun – but it was no
ghost. It was Luisa coming through the wrought-iron gate of the
graveyard.”
A thrilling historical fiction novel that asks questions about what goes on inside a woman's heart.
'What They Said About Luisa,' is a novel from the inimitable pen of Ericka Rummel. Over the past few years, I have had the opportunity to read two of Rummel's other works and I was truly impressed by both of them. But this book is wholly different from either of those in terms of genre and I think Rummel stepped her game up even more!
'What They Said About Luisa,' is told from many different perspectives, each chapter taking on a different voice as it explores the life of one Luisa Abrego, a slave turned international explorer who made quite a unique mark on history.
Abrego started out as a slave in the home of Don Diego Rodriguez and, after his death, was awarded a large inheritance and her freedom. The book follows Luisa through the eyes of the people she affected as she leaves her former master's house and travels to the New World – America with a man whom she had started a relationship with. But once Luisa arrives in America, she discovers that Catholicism has spread there as well, and the Spanish Inquisition may be looking for her.
I can't recommend this book highly enough for historical fiction lovers! This is one you are definitely going to want to pick up!
About Erika Rummel
Award winning author, Erika Rummel is the author of more than a dozen non-fiction books and ten novels. Her tenth novel, ‘’What They Said About Luisa’ was published on June 18, 2024..
She won the Random House Creative Writing Award (2011) for a chapter from ‘The Effects of Isolation on the Brain’ and The Colorado Independent Publishers’ Association’ Award for Best Historical Novel, in 2018. She is the recipient of a Getty Fellowship and the Killam Award.
Erika grew up in Vienna, emigrated to Canada and obtained a PhD from the University of Toronto. She taught at Wilfrid Laurier and U of Toronto. She divides her time between Toronto and Los Angeles and has lived in Argentina, Romania, and Bulgaria. To find out more about Erika and her books.visit her website at http://www.erikarummel.com/
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