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Laura Resau's The Queen Of Water

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“And I feel like the Queen of Water. I feel like water that transforms from a flowing river to a tranquil lake to a powerful waterfall to a freshwater spring to a meandering creek to a salty sea to raindrops gentle on your face to hard, stinging hail to frost on a mountaintop, and back to a river again.” ― María Virginia Farinango , The Queen of Water. The book that I read was The Queen Of Water by Laura Resau & Maria Virginia Farinango.
Born in an Andean village in Ecuador, Virginia lives with her large family in a small, earthen-walled dwelling. In her village of indígenas, it is not uncommon to work in the fields all day, even as a child, or to be called a longa tonta—stupid Indian—by members of the ruling class of mestizos, or Spanish descendants. When seven-year-old Virginia is taken from her village to be a servant to a mestizo couple, she has no idea what the future holds.Virginia is told she will earn a large sum of money each month that will be sent back to her family, so she's happy to do her part. But it's soon clear that her job is nothing like that of her older sister. Virginia doesn't get to go home to visit every month, and soon years have passed.Virginia forgets her native Quichua and learns to speak Spanish fluently.And yet she is not totally accepted …show more content…

Sometimes the Doctorita is pleased with Virginia, and other days she beats her. Niño calls Virginia m'hija (my daughter), but he doesn't teach her to read or keep his wife

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