Married to Spain

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Pub Date 09 Sep 2022 | Archive Date 14 Nov 2022

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Description

Suzanne travels to Seville, Spain, to be with her future husband, Óscar.

While helping Oscar’s Abuela cook meals for the family, Suzanne hears the harrowing story of how Abuela and Óscar's Abuelo escaped the Spanish Civil War.

Abuela captivates Suzanne with her stories beginning with crossing the Pyrenees into France on foot while pregnant, then her and Abuelo’s immediate internment in French concentration camps, later life in France living under Nazi occupation, and finally, the detailed descriptions of the few heroes and many villains along the way.

These fascinating accounts are all told while Abuela gives Suzanne lessons in the art of Spanish cuisine.

Married to Spain is written as a form of translingual hybrid literature.

Suzanne travels to Seville, Spain, to be with her future husband, Óscar.

While helping Oscar’s Abuela cook meals for the family, Suzanne hears the harrowing story of how Abuela and Óscar's Abuelo...


Advance Praise

"Manuela’s story about France and Spain from 1939-1945 is fantastic. She and Suzanne also help us see the resistance, the solidarity and the possibility of having binational/bicultural families! –Suyanna Barker, PhD in Public Health


A fantastically compelling novel about the Spanish Civil War all readers will love! –Arlene Crewdson, Founder of Global Voices Initiative


Learn a lot about the plight of Spanish refugees in France in 1939 and 1940. So many parallels with today! –Katrina Ferreyra, CDO of After School Matters, Chicago.


Married To Spain is a riveting account of one couple’s escape from the Civil War in Spain. From their frightening passage over the Pyrenees on foot into France, their capture and incarceration in a concentration camp, to their attempts to escape and return home to Spain, the story plot keeps your attention from start to finish. The author’s personal connection to the couple weaved throughout makes the story and history of the times come alive. –Laura Pomeroy, Esquire"

"Manuela’s story about France and Spain from 1939-1945 is fantastic. She and Suzanne also help us see the resistance, the solidarity and the possibility of having binational/bicultural families! ...


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