01936cam a2200337 i 4500 1858346060 TxAuBib 20250114120000.0 240816t20252024||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024038017 9781668082430 1668082438 (OCoLC)1438665813 TxAuBib rda Desai, Anita, 1937-, author. Rosarita / Anita Desai. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2025. ©2024. 96 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Away from her home in India to study Spanish, Bonita sits on a bench in El Jardin de San Miguel, Mexico, basking in the park's lush beauty, when she slowly becomes aware that she is being watched. An elderly woman approaches her, claiming that she knew Bonita's mother-that they had been friends when Bonita's mother had lived in Mexico as a talented young artist. Bonita tells the stranger that she must be mistaken; her mother was not a painter and had never travelled to Mexico. Though the stranger leaves, Bonita cannot shake the feeling that she is being followed. Days later, haunted by the encounter, Bonita seeks out the woman, whom she calls The Trickster, and follows her on a tour of what may, or may not, have been her mother's past. As a series of mysterious events brilliantly unfold, Bonita is unable to escape The Trickster's presence, as she is forced to confront questions of truth and identity, and specters of familial and national violence"-- 20250114. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Suspense fiction. Mexico Fiction. Psychological fiction.