Hector Tobar at Book Passage, Corte Madera October 10, 2011

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar presents his novel The Barbarian Nurseries ($27.00). Araceli is the live-in maid in the Torres-Thompson household. She has been responsible strictly for the cooking and cleaning, but the recession has hit, and suddenly Araceli is the last Mexican standing. Tobar is the author of The Tattooed Soldier.

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