Here's to You, Jesusa! | Elena Poniatowska, Deanna Heikkinen
A sensitive account of the life of Jesusa Palancares de Aguilar follows the young woman from her childhood, through her role in the Mexican Revolution and difficult marriage, to her post-revolutionary criminal career, in a richly textured historical novel that offers an intriguing study of the most important events in Mexican history during the twentieth century. Reprint.