Night of the Radishes
by Sandra Benítez
Hyperion, 2004
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About the Book
Annie Rush, a 34-year-old Minnesotan, seems to be living every woman's dream: She has an interesting job, loyal husband, and adorable sons. But just beneath the surface, a series of family tragedies haunts her, including the death of her twin sister more than three decades earlier. Her father, plagued by guilt, shot himself soon thereafter; a few years later Annie's brother Hub Hart left home for good. While they haven't had contact for decades, the death of their mother compels Annie to embark on a search for her lost sibling.

Hub's trail takes Annie all the way to Oaxaca, Mexico, a town exuberant with Christmas and the Night of the Radishes celebrations. Amid the vibrant festivities, Annie is drawn to Joe, a Berkeley professor staying at the same inn. She must decide whether her love for her husband is great enough to resist Joe, and, ultimately, who was to blame for her sister's death.

About the Author

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Sandra Benítez is the author of A Place Where the Sea Remembers, which won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award; the Minnesota Book Award; and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. Bitter Grounds won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award. Benítez is a past Keller-Edelstein Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Minnesota, and she won a Bush Foundation Fellowship in Fiction. She lives in Minnesota.