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"Glover, an American adventurer, marries Maria, his Ecuadorian bride, and they return to his family home in Florida. Maria struggles to learn her husband's language and culture. They eventually settle in the Panama Canal Zone where Niza grows up at her father's side hunting in the jungle. She feels the pain of racial prejudice and is determined to prove her own worth to the world. She accomplishes everything she sets out to do, and along the way adopts a village in Baja, saves lives, and marries an adoring man who follows her adventures around the world."
myrna ericksen, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Romance
Yes
Kind of romance:
- In love with someone of different social class
- trying to decide who really love
Political/social rights fight
Yes
job/profession:
- teacher
Gender/Class story?
- immigrant story
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Family, hate
Yes
Ethnic/regional/gender
Yes
Exploring/Searching...
- tall mountains
War/Cloak & Dagger story?
- Led as politician
Outdoors story
Yes
War/Spying
Yes
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- bulging muscles
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Central
- South
Century:
- 1930's-1950's
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Book makes you feel?
- very happy
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- parody
- gentle
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
Pictures/Illustrations?
- More 6-10 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 26-50% of book
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