BOOKS ON ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE FOR FEMINIST WOMEN

In the mid-1960s during a period of political upheaval in Mexico, a mestiza girl loses her Tarahumaran Indian mother at birth. Intelligent, spirited and resilient, she grows up in a tight knit, loving family with her father and brother, a remarkable distance runner. She survives a massacre in 1968 just before the Olympic Games in Mexico City, but her brother is injured and his left foot is amputated. She spends her teenage years successfully helping him rehabilitate against all odds. She matures into an independent and feisty feminist with a PhD in Linguistics who meets the Australian love of her life in Spain. After a series of adventures in West Africa, she eventually migrates to Western Australia, where she assists in resurrecting Aboriginal languages on the verge of extinction.

The eye-catching backdrops of the Sierra Madre Mountains, West Africa and Western Australia are beautifully drawn, and the woman’s relationships are deeply thought through. This is a sensitive and heart-rending story.

Readers interested in books on adventures and romance for feminist women will find this imaginative novel a rewarding read.