Concrete Flowers

A young immigrant yearns to escape her bleak Parisian housing project in this novel by an author who “wields a precise and poetic pen” ( Radio France Internationale ).   Behind the bars on her window, Rosa Maria dreams of sunshine, love, calm, and leaving the city where she lives with her family. She suffers her father’s beatings, hides her femininity behind shapeless clothing, and pines for the beautiful Jason as she awaits her opportunity to flee.   Meanwhile, her older brother is fo