Download or read book Spirits of the Ordinary written by Kathleen Alcalá and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel, Alcala presents a magical, multigenerational tale of family passions set along the Mexican-American border in the 1870s. "A strong and finely rendered book in which passions both ordinary and extraordinary are made vivid and convincing".--Larry McMurtry.