El niño

An attorney, who has learned to distance herself from everyone and everything, finds out that she is human and capable of relationships. El Niño burns with a radiance and intensity. It speaks in tongues as all visionary art does. ...the novel refuses conventional borders and strategies. It doesn t compromise. Kate Braverman, Los Angeles Times. Originally published by Viking under the author s real name, Douglas Anne Munson, in 1990.