The Deep Blue Memory (The Basque Series) [Hardcover]

Monique Laxalt Urza (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

An extended family of Basque Americans in Nevada perform a precarious balancing act between assimilation and affirmation of their ethnic roots in this lyrical, highly descriptive first novel. The nameless narrator, like the author a lawyer from Reno, recalls fond girlhood interactions with her immigrant grandfather, a rugged rancher who finds in Nevada's snowy terrain a sense of continuity with nature that the Basque country's green hills once afforded. She spends a year abroad with her parents, attending a French Basque grammar school at which she learns more about her heritage. The first American-born generation finds success and stress: the narrator's father is a writer, her Uncle Luke a U.S. senator whose opponents tarnish his image with a smear campaign. Luke's lawsuit to clear his name brings the clan together but also triggers the suicide of one member. In incantatory, at times self-indulgent prose, Urza conveys a sense of the family as an unbroken circle cradling both the individual and a living culture.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press; First edition (April 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874172128
• ISBN-13: 978-0874172126
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,676,212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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