Like a Bride and Like a Mother

These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parent''s dictates, and her husband''s and family''s expectations. The only constant in her life is a need to find her own way, and the story of how she does so is intensely personal and yet universal in its humanness.

This quest begins in Oshinica''s childhood...