Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
	List Price:   $19.95 Unit Price:   $15.96 You Save:   $3.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   0446675369 ISBN-13:   9780446675369 Publisher:   Grand Central Publishing Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   April 1999 Pages:   304 Format:   Paperback
Awards
1969  Nebula Awards  Nominee/Honoree  2006  Original Voices Award  Nominee/Honoree  2007  Book Sense Book of the Year  Winner!  2007  Alex Awards  Winner!  2007  Great Lakes Book Awards  Winner!
Subjects
NEW MEXICO_FICTION FICTION_GENERAL
Description/Notes
Rudolfo Anaya is professor emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the winner of the PEN Center Award for Fiction for his novel Alburquerque. His other novels include Zia Summer, Rio Grande Fall, and Shaman Winter, and he has written numerous short stories, essays, plays, and children's books, such as The Farolitos of Christmas. Stories filled with wonder and the haunting beauty of his culture have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English, and his tales fairly shimmer with the lyric richness of his prose. Acclaimed in both Spanish and English, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic bestseller ... Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will test the bonds that tie him to his people, and discover himself in the pagan past, in his father's wisdom, and in his mother's Catholicism. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world-and will nurture the birth of his soul. When a curandera comes to stay with a young boy, he tests the bonds that tie him to his culture and finds himself in the secrets of the past.