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to send your request via e-mail.>>A Book Group Meeting Menu (a guest-blog post for bookreporter.com) Apart from controversy, there's nothing better than some yummy cake and jolt of coffee to get a book group going. For The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, my novel based on the true story of 19th century Mexico, I beg you, skip those gloppy nachos and so very twentieth-century-American-tourist "margaritas"; they would not only put everyone to sleep, but they would be no more appropriate than, say, hamburgers and Pepsi for Gone with the Wind. May I suggest some café de olla and Mrs. Yorke's raisin cakes? Recipes follow. Who is Mrs. Yorke, and what is she doing in a novel about Mexico? READ MORE.. >>Buy your copy now. |
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"Mayo's reanimation of a crucial
period in Mexican history should satisfy history buffs and those
in the mood for an engaging story brimming with majestic ambition.
-- Publisher's Weekly "a swashbuckling, riotous good time, befitting the fairy-tale promise of the opening sentence" -- Austin American-Statesman "Mayos cultural insights are first-rate, and the glittering, doomed regime comes to life" -- Library Journal (Xpress Review) "I have read a few sweeping historical novels that have remain inside of me forever. Tolstoy's War and Peace is one of those, Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities is another, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago is another, and now The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is another." -- Mexico Connect |