Woman Hollering Creek | Characters
Cleofilas Enriqueta DeLeon Hernandez is a young, innocent Mexican woman with much curiosity and a head full of dreams of a life of love and passion derived from her beloved books, song lyrics, and soap operas. When her father, Don Serafin, offers her in marriage to Juan Pedro Martinez Sanchez, a man from "el otro lado"—the other side of the border, she hastily makes her bridal gown, gathers flowers for her makeshift bouquet, and goes off with the "man she has waited her whole life for 'to find' passion in its purest crystalline essence," even the passion women often pay for with...
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