Mariposa by Candis C. Coffee
Trade Paperback	5 ½ x 8 ½	Fiction
Release date: March 2005	249 pages	ISBN: 0-9748962-6-8
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As a child in 1920s West Texas, Annarose sees life and intelligence in everything, but after she is exiled to Los Angeles at 13, she loses her connection to spirit, and finds herself searching for what she has lost through intellectual pursuits.

As she matures, her philosophical studies and supportive friendship with a gifted musician lead to an awakening and she travels to Mexico to become a writer. Her relationships with Artist Frida Kahlo and Crisanto, the man who becomes her lover, connect her to the beautiful, wild, free, and happy. She embraces all that they and their country represent and thus begins her transformation to writer-but before her transformation is complete, Annarose must return to the life she left as a child.

Haunting and evocative, this sweeping literary fiction will stay with readers long after the last page.

About the Author

CANDIS C. COFFEE, author and award winning poet, has lived in the places she writes extensively about in her new book, Mariposa. A native of West Texas, she studied creative writing in graduate school at UCLA and the University of New Mexico. She spent four years with Los Angeles-based Star Scrolls, Inc, an astrological publishing company, producing their astrological dailies. In New Orleans, she helped Chef Paul Prudhomme write the cookbook of his dreams, giving the book its whimsical title, Fork in the Road.