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    Valentina Goldman's Immaculate Confusion

    By Marisol Murano

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    Since her arrival in the United States from Venezuela, Valentina Goldman isn’t exactly living the American Dream. She’s living the American Nightmare. Her late husband, Max, has left her a young widow, a step-daughter whom Valentina didn’t want, and a bi-polar ex-wife. And oh, having given up her dream job in New York, Valentina is also unemployed in Arizona. Part "Bridget Jones Diary," part "Modern Family," "Valentina Goldman’s Immaculate Confusion" is the story of a woman trying to get a handle on her whacky life in America. In breathless, blog-like snippets, Valentina compares her own story with that of her eccentric sister, Azucena, who has bizarre troubles of her own down in the tropics. "Valentina Goldman’s Immaculate Confusion" is a funny and moving story about what happens when a passionate South American woman moves to the USA and, like so many of us, ends up with a life she never imagined.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHipso Media
    Release dateAug 1, 2012
    ISBN9780984055654
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    Valentina Goldman's Immaculate Confusion
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    Marisol Murano

    A native of Venezuela, Marisol Murano is the author of 10 books. Her most recent work, "Batter Will Fly: 21 Life-Flipping Lessons from a Seasoned Chef," is both a self-help book and inspirational chef memoir with motivational stories, travelogues and essays based on her life traveling the world as a destination chef and cooking at sea. Murano has written two seriously-funny novels — "Valentina Goldman's Immaculate Confusion," and the sequel, "Valentina Goldman Ships Out." Marisol's first novel, "The Lady, the Chef and the Courtesan," won several awards, including Latino Novel of the Year, Original Voices and Amazon's "Book of the Month." Murano is also praised for her cookbook series "Deliciously Doable Small Plates From Around the World" which features more than 60 recipes from familiar and exotic destinations, with beautiful photography and entertaining travelogue stories from her life at sea as a celebrity chef.

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    • 4/5

      Digame. Tell me. About your life, about my life, about everything.

      In Marisol Murano’s second novel, Valentina Goldman’s Immaculate Confusion, the reader is thrust into a non-linear narrative told from the first-person point-of-view of Valentina, a Venezuelan immigrant, daughter of two psychologists, sister of a workaholic magazine editor in Caracas, wife of Max Goldman and stepmother of Emily Goldman, to whom the narrative is directed.

      The story is held together with the unanswered question of what happened to Max Goldman and Valentina’s unfolding account of her childhood in Venezuela and her adulthood in the United States and abroad. Told with the boldness of South American magic realism and the straightforwardness of North American humor, Murano achieves an engaging account of the inescapable journey of the human heart.

      South American stories of children being abducted in the mall and uncles playing volleyball with a yellow frog and fathers treating roosters with more respect than their wives are interspersed with North American tales of being the wife of a Frenchman in New Orleans and the quest to be a Jackie O impersonator for the Museum of Modern Art and the realization that one can never escape from one’s self no matter how many times one may change careers, names, or spouses.

      An entertaining story told in English though flavored with phrases in Spanish and French, Valentina’s Immaculate Confusion ultimately isn’t immaculate or confusing but refreshingly messy with all of its truthfulness.

      *I received a copy of this book from the publisher for an unbiased review.