每一年，塞拉亚·雷耶斯（“拉拉”）一家——叔叔、婶婶、父亲、母亲，还有拉拉的六个兄长——都会分乘三辆车进行一次乱哄哄的旅行。他们从芝加哥启程，驾车前往墨西哥城度暑假，那里是他们的“小乖乖祖父”和“可怕祖母”的家。一路之上，拉拉力图在兄弟们的聒噪之外寻找另外一种声音；她尝试理解自己身处何方，究竟是在边境线的哪一边。对于家族生活，拉拉是一个精明的观察者。
但是，当拉拉开始讲述发生在祖母身上的故事，寻找是什么原因导致祖母变得如此可怕时，祖母却指责拉拉的描写夸大其词。转瞬之间，对家族中几代人身世的讲述演变成了一场”追溯历史”的喧闹之旅，于是，真实与谎言就这样交织在生活之中。
《拉拉的褐色披肩》堪比一条珍贵的墨西哥长披肩——经过了雷耶斯家女人们的代代相传，它依旧随风舞动，生生不息；它就是一部鲜活的关于历史、家庭以及爱的史诗。
Every year, Ceyala “Lala” Reyes’ family—aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala’s six older brothers—packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother’s house in Mexico City for the summer. Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothers and to understand her place on this side of the border and that, Lala is a shrewd observer of family life.
But when she starts telling the Awful Grandmother’s life story, seeking clues to how she got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating. Soon, a multigenerational family narrative turns into a whirlwind exploration of storytelling, lies, and life. Like the cherished rebozo, or shawl, that has been passed down through generations of Reyes women, Caramelo is alive with the vibrations of history, family, and love. From the winner of the 2018 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
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