In her swirling debut novel THE THREADS OF THE HEART, the French writer Carole Martinez follows the turbulent life of Frasquita Carasco, a 19th century Spanish seamstress with mystical powers.
The witty, dark and surreal novel is narrated by Soledad, the last of Frasquita's six children. Soledad's colorful commentary binds together the fantastical stories of her outcast family in the small fictional village of Santavela in southern Spain and then in Morocco.
