TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruiz,Rudy
TI  - The resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez: a novel 
SN  - 9781982604615
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Ashland, OR
PB  - Blackstone Publishing
KW  - Children of immigrants
KW  - United States
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mexican Americans
KW  - First loves
KW  - Pharmacists
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Magic realist fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Fulgencio Ramirez strives to succeed in America, break a mystical family curse, and win back Carolina Mendelssohn's love thirty years after their doomed youthful romance; 1950s. In the border town of La Frontera, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist's daughter. Their bonds will be undone by a force more powerful than they could have known. Thirty years later Fulgencio Ramirez, RPh, is conducting his daily ritual of reading the local obituaries in his pharmacy office. After nearly a quarter of a century of waiting, his nemesis, the husband of Carolina Mendelssohn, has died. Fulgencio strives to succeed in America, break a mystical family curse, and win back Carolina's love after their doomed youthful romance. -- adapted from jacket
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