Becoming Marta, Lorea Canales
Becoming Marta, Lorea Canales
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Becoming Marta

Author: Lorea Canales, Gabriel Amor

Narrator: Marisol Ramirez

Unabridged: 5 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/01/2016


Synopsis

Thanks to her wealthy and well-connected family, twenty-six-year-old Marta is used to getting whatever she wants. And what she wants is a good time.That is, until her father’s wife—the woman who raised her—becomes ill. Beautiful young Marta is forced to witness her unfaithful, brutish father abandon her adoptive mother in her final moments. After her father’s swift remarriage, Marta is surprised to discover that she is now the sole heir of her late mother’s sizeable estate. For the first time, she can choose to cut ties and establish her true self, apart from her parents, her social standing, and the complications of a life of excess. From the balmy beaches of Mexico to New York City, Marta searches for clues to her unconventional heritage and seeks to shed her family’s tradition of secrecy and betrayal as she finds her own way.

About Lorea Canales

Lorea Canales is a lawyer, journalist, translator, and critically acclaimed novelist. One of the first Mexican women admitted to Georgetown Law, Canales worked in antitrust and electoral law in Washington, DC, and Mexico before joining the newspaper Reforma as a legal correspondent.Since then, Canales has taught law at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, edited for the New York Times Syndicate in its Spanish news service, and worked for Felipe Calderón’s presidential campaign in Mexico.In 2010, Canales received a master’s in creative writing from New York University. She published her novel Apenas Marta (Hardly Marta) in 2011 and Los perros (The Dogs) in 2013. Canales currently lives in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Marsha

Spoiled rich girl did something then nothing happened. Someone else did something then nothing happened. The only compelling part of this was the back story. The Marta had basically no character development and then her friend took pictures... why did I need to know that? This book just felt very ch......more

This was ok. I got this through the Kindle First program on amazon and I needed a "book translated to English" for my reading challenge. This is not the type of book that I would normally go for. But it was an interesting read. I found myself going through feelings of "if you're that unhappy and try......more

Abrupt Somewhat liked the book I felted like it needed more. Ending to abrupt. Marta was a stranger character and snobbish!......more


Quotes

“Chilling prose…Canales has written a remarkable novel.” Irish Times