Teresa of the New World, by Sharman Apt Russell
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-Winner of the Arizona Author's Association Award for Children's Literature-Runner-up for the Arizona Book of the Year-Finalist for the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards-IndieFab FinalistIn 1528, the real-life conquistador Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked in the New World where he lived for eight years as a slave, trader, and shaman. In this lyrical weaving of history and myth, the adventurer takes his young daughter Teresa from her home in Texas to walk westward into the setting sun, their travels accompanied by miracles--visions and prophecies. But when Teresa reaches the outposts of New Spain, life is not what her father had promised.As a kitchen servant in the household of a Spanish official, Teresa grows up estranged from the magic she knew as a child, when she could speak to the earth and listen to animals. When a new epidemic of measles devastates the area, the sixteen-year-old sets off on her own journey, befriending a Mayan were-jaguar who cannot control his shape-shifting and a warhorse abandoned by his Spanish owner. Now Teresa moves through a land stalked by Plague: smallpox as well as measles, typhus, and scarlet fever. Soon it becomes clear that Teresa and her friends are being manipulated and driven by forces they do not understand. To save herself and others, Teresa will find herself listening again to the earth, sinking underground, swimming through limestone and fossil, opening to the power of root and stone. As she searches for her place in the New World, she will travel farther and deeper than she had ever imagined.Rich in historical detail and scope, Teresa of the New World takes you into the dreamscape of the sixteenth-century American Southwest.Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Teresa of the New World, by Sharman Apt Russell - Amazon Sales Rank: #1107543 in Books
- Brand: Russell, Sharman Apt
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.30" h x 1.10" w x 5.70" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 192 pages
Teresa of the New World, by Sharman Apt Russell About the Author Sharman Apt Russell has lived in the numinous deserts of the American Southwest for most of her life. She is a longtime professor at Western New Mexico University and Antioch University in L.A. and the award-winning author of numerous essays, short stories, and books, including Hunger and An Obsession with Butterflies.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Fantastic By S. Dunavan This book is fantastic, in both the popular and archaic senses of the word. It is extraordinarily good or excellent, as Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com define fantastic - but is also “conceived of unrestrained imagination”, “marked by extravagant fancy”, and colored with “extreme individuality”. Sharman Apt Russell takes one of the most interesting historical accounts of American colonial history as the jumping off point for her book of marvels. Spanish nobleman Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who accompanied Pánfilo de Narváez on an ill-fated expedition to Florida in 1528, was shipwrecked on Galveston Island, enslaved by Native peoples, and then escaped captivity with two other Spaniards and a Moroccan Berber. These four men – the only survivors of an expedition that began with over 400 men on five ships – healed sick and injured Native peoples with their ceremonies, traded, and traveled on a circuitous route across modern day Texas and Mexico that lasted for over six years, until they encountered Spanish slave-traders in northern Mexico and returned to Spain in 1537. Cabeza de Vaca published an account of his experiences in 1542; his Relación has served as a rich and insightful source of information on Native peoples and their environs for governments, anthropologists, scientists, and historians for centuries. Teresa (of the New World) is the totally fictional - but not improbable in terms of parentage - daughter of Cabeza de Vaca and a woman of the people who live along the Gulf of Mexico. She comes of age on her father’s journey and in a colonial governor’s mansion in Mexico, with her roots in two worlds – the Old and the New, Spanish and Native. Teresa’s story is exquisitely researched (based on both Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación and historical descriptions of Spanish encomiendas, epidemics, and slavery in Mexico) - but it is also beautiful and full of the poetry of everyday life, death, and the natural world, and steeped in the magical realism of both Native beliefs and her father’s Catholic faith and Spanish folksongs. I went and read a little about magical realism after finishing Teresa of the New World – I knew the story fit the genre, generally speaking, but wasn’t sure how to describe the genre. It turns out magical realism is rather hard to pigeonhole (see Alberto Álvaro Ríos’ website for definitions, defining narratives, meditations and notes on it), but I can safely say that Russell’s story blends historical accuracy with a fictional character who transforms the common into the awesome and unreal, utilizing magic intertwined with myth, surprising the reader with its forays across cultural boundaries. Perhaps more importantly, a month after reading Teresa’s story, I still remember many of the images and characters vividly – and will for a long time (and not just because I plan to read it again). Not many books stick with me like this, or compel me to subsequent reads to appreciate different aspects of such a multi-layered story. Some of the things I remember: the loads of firewood that the people carry, their hunger, the pits they dig for baking cactus, the fermented or ripe, red, prickly-pear fruits, mesquite pods, yucca plants and grass seeds, packrat nests, twisted juniper trees and peccaries, and mice, hares, rabbits, lizards, and ravens. Then there are the gardens of the governor’s mansion, with its herb gardens of yarrow and mint, sage and oregano, balm and lavender, and rosemary (one character’s body odor threatened to overwhelm the rosemary), and the kitchen work: tending fire, chopping vegetables, grinding corn, and cutting up duck, turkey, cow and deer. There are lavishly carved vines on a dark, polished walnut escritorio – a writing desk – and a pompous war horse “raised in the sweet perfume of the sweetest city of Spain” (p. 85) who isn’t afraid to bite and who raises his tail to deposit acrid but not unpleasant smelling piles of dung. I think Horse is the best fictional horse I’ve encountered since I read "The Horse and His Boy" in the early 1970’s. Anyway, there are also mosquitoes and blackberries. There is the earth itself, with its beds of granite, limestone reefs filled with “curved shells, bony fish, and the long skeletons of monsters with pointed teeth and flippers and tails” (p. 157). And then there’s a jaguar and a child who comes near death from measles, which was deadly to the Indians who had no immunity to this and other Old World diseases.One of the creepiest parts of Teresa’s story actually involves the horrible epidemics of the 16th century that may have contributed to the deaths of up to nine out of ten people in some communities:“The women in the kitchen sang: Sarampión toca la puerta. Viruela dice: ¿Quién es? Y Escarlatina contesta: ¡Aquí estamos los tres! The cook would sometimes shout a little madly, “Sing it again!” And the women would sing again: Measles knocks at the door. Smallpox asks, Who’s there? And Scarlet Fever replies: All three of us are here!” (p. 53).This was apparently (and perhaps still is?) a well-known song in many parts of Latin America, and fear - also known as Plague later in the book - turns out to be an important character in Teresa’s story, who doesn’t knock at the door so much as sneak and swagger in wearing different disguises. Teresa of the New World is a story of marvels and heartbreak and endurance, illuminating a little known period of history, suitable for middle-grade readers without ever being too juvenile for adults. I did occasionally wish there was a map, perhaps on the endpapers. There are many sites online that attempt to trace Cabeza de Vaca’s journeys, but I also wanted to know where the Governor’s mansion was and the village of the Opata and where “the wise woman’s crumbling adobe with its flat space for a garden and white bluffs falling to a view below” (p. 178) was. I doubt that many other readers – especially the kids and teenagers that I sincerely hope will read this book – will feel the same need to locate Teresa’s journeys on any maps outside of those in their imagination.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Magical and Tragic Journey By Andree Sanborn Teresa of the New World is a loving coming of age novel about Teresa and her adventures and journeys as she leaves her mother's tribe in the southwest of North America during the time of the Spanish conquistadors. There are touches of magic in this powerful book that transport the reader.Teresa of the New World is rich in imagery: camp fires seen from above on a hill "flickered on the ground like fallen stars." And "he saw the shadows of shadows creeping into the compound." When I read "a thunderstorm lit by the sun’s last rays," I saw the light and smelled the rain.Author Sharman Apt Russell has a clarity of style and freshness that I enjoyed as much here as in her non-fiction nature books. She writes so easily about nature and introduces us to the flora and fauna of the southwest desert. She uses the ancient lore of the raven much as a Greek chorus; it warns us of danger, foreshadows events, and hels Teresa understand her circumstances and surroundings.We experience the entire range of Teresa's emotions. When her Spanish father abandons her (for valid reasons) when he returns to Spain, we feel Teresa's anguish as she "waited for the world to end." Teresa experiences anxiety and fear, just as we do. And she learns a strategy to overcome this unrelenting fear: "if they kept moving forward as quickly as they could without becoming exhausted, then fear would not come too close." A lesson we all can use in our lives.The book is rich in projects and lessons for the classroom. For history alone, there are epidemics among the native people, slave taking of the native people (methods which the Spanish used were mimicked or copied a century later by Europeans in Africa). There is the Lengend of Juan Diego and the MIracle of the Roses, which I first read about in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, another beautiful novel of the Southwest. For science, the flora and fauna of the desert are beautifully described. Vocabulary development is rich in Spanish, English, and Aztec words that can stimulate discussions about the book.Teresa's journey comes to an end. It is an open ending: there are "questions not yet answered." Questions that beguil all of us our entire lives. I admire Teresa and wish I could have known her when she was older. I hope to remember the lessons she has taught me about perseverance and overcoming personal pain.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A beautifully written and deeply moving novel... By Gabe_Real In Teresa of the New World, Sharman Apt Russell crafts a powerful tale of transformation. In the midst of threatening and uncertain times, a young mestizo girl journeys to find her place in the new world. The allegorical connection that Russell makes between spiritual and physical transformation makes her novel a relevant experience for both younger and older readers.The book shines in its details. Russell’s knowledge of the indigenous flora adds an indispensable authenticity to the narrative. This isn’t a shallow exploration of life during Spain’s colonization of the Americas, it is a well-researched, thoroughly enjoyable, and enlightening journey.Furthermore, Teresa is a well-developed protagonist. The struggles which she endures will have you questioning the intentions hidden within the novel’s historical backdrop, while simultaneously finding redemption and hope in Teresa’s ability to thrive in the face of pandemic and imperialistic threats.Russell doesn’t shy away from depicting the dire circumstances of life in the Americas in the 1500s. Her narrative takes place during a complex period in human history. By not ignoring or glossing over these complex realities, she allows her readers to gain valuable insight. One of the complex dynamics which Russell’s’ novel explores is visible in Teresa’s relationship with her father. Through social and idealistic necessities (some morally questionable), Teresa and him are separated. The dynamic this creates throughout the narrative is heart-wrenching. Nevertheless, it is necessary for Teresa’s development into a self-sufficient and wise individual.Illustrating the complex relationship between Teresa’s European and indigenous ancestries and, to a greater extent, the developing social structure between the colonizers and the indigenous people is a difficult task to undertake. However, Russell successfully accomplishes this through her use of magical realism. The world she crafts is rich in allegorical meaning. Teresa’s ability to commune with nature is indicative of her indigenous heritage, while her interaction with the personified Plague brings to light the dangers of imperialistic expansion. Plague is a frightening antagonist in that he both does and does not discriminate.Teresa of the New World is a well-executed novel that will sit comfortably in the presence of other well-known and beloved books, such as Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. Russell writes in powerful, and often beautiful, prose. Teresa is a character that will stay with you long after you’ve closed the book.
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