Described by author Fay Weldon as "vivid, lively and accomplished," Souvenirs of the Revolution is a telenovela-like family saga novel set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Betrayal, deviance, rigid morality and a fatal subservience to moral correctness drives the Montelejos clan. Complex and self-serving, innocent and deluded, larger than life, an illustrious family line in its final decline. Mariabella Montelejos, who tries to sell her only daughter for the price of a new carriage during the bloodiest part of the Revolution. Her daughter, Portensia Montelejos, who leaves her mother's...