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The house of forgetting by Benjamin Alire Saenz. Hardback. A Novel
Seven year old Gloria Santos is taken by Thomas Blacker from the barrio of El Paso, TX to Chicago. There, in the home of the respected writer and academic, Gloria is raised to be a refined, educated young woman with an appreciation of literature, music and fine cooking. For more than 20 years she is confined to Blacker's house and only occasionally allowed in the garden he so meticulously keeps. She becomes, it seems, like his flowers--lovingly tended, but utterly at his mercy.
As she reaches adulthood, Gloria grows more and more aware that her situation is unacceptable, and she finds herself confronting her future and the man who has shaped her past. She struggles to distinguish between love and obsession, between gratitude and obligation, and ultimately between betrayal and self preservation. Naïve, frightened, and caught between a world she hates and one she does not know, Gloria must summon all her courage and moral strength or risk losing the life she longs for.