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Sandra Rodriguez Barron

The Heiress of Water, A Novel
Rayo/HarperCollinsPublishers, September 2006

-Winner of the Mariposa Award for Best First Book
2007 International Latino Book Awards

-Honorable Mention Winner, 2007

- Borders Original Voices™ Selection
- Book Sense Notable Selection (American Booksellers Association)
- Latino Recommended Reading List 2006 (Association of American Publishers)
- 2007 Top Ten New Latino Authors to Watch (Latinostories.com)

"Sandra Rodriguez Barron's exuberant prose yields an immensely entertaining reading experience. You are fraught with the certainty that she is a gatekeeper of the secrets of the sea." --Isabel Allende, best-selling author of Zorro and Daughter of Fortune

Coming in September 2008: German and Spanish language editions

About the Author
I was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in El Salvador and Connecticut. I have also lived in the Florida, the Dominican Republic and France. I've had somewhat of a nomadic life, and so I write from a perspective that includes both displacement and discovery. I am interested in portraying characters who, like me, belong in more than one place, and to see what happens to them as they seek to define, both geographically and emotionally, the term "home."

Photos of El Salvador

The Heiress of Water depends heavily on a sense of place. Here are some of the photos I've taken of El Salvador recently.

I cherish the photo on the left, taken at Playa El Cuco, after sunset, at lowtide. I am walking with my father, who taught me to take notice of the vastness and beauty of this place. "This beach is so wide you could land a jet here," he used to say.

Links, by subject

This page provides links to many of the sites that I accessed when writing The Heiress of Water.