Unsettling

By Lynda Sandoval

At long last, Lucy Olivera, fun, feisty, and decidedly commitment phobic, is doing the unthinkable. She is getting married. Yes, she's getting married despite the fact that her family is cursed and her marriage is destined to end in divorce. Everyone who knows her agrees -- there's simply no hope. The legendary Olivera curse will outlive the happiest of relationships. But the hex didn't count on Lucy's three dearest friends -- Cristina, Mercedes, and Annette -- who are determined to get Lucy down the aisle and on the road to a long and happy marriage. They succeed -- at first. But when Lucy bolts after the wedding, each of the women must face her own problems. Together they take off for the mountains of New Mexico to seek the counsel of a guru renowned for the ability to completely change lives. What they find is not what they expect; and the quest itself strengthens the bonds of their friendship and allows them to cherish the lives they have and to make the most of what they've got -- with laughter, love, and a little bit of magic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060546905
• ISBN13: 9780060546908
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent novel!

I read the free preview online and fell so in love with the opening chapter that I had to rush out and buy it! This is one of those really fantastic books that you read in a few hours time, then want to go back and savor over and over again.

Real Women Are Unsettled

The First Wives Club and Waiting to Exhale meets "Real Women Have Curves," "Stand By Me," and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." It's "Life Lessons for my Latina Girls," with life lessons for us all mixed in a curandera's brew of magic, friendship, family, and truth. Four amigas go off to see the wizard in a decidedly non-"Thelma and Louise" spree that includes saving a pregnant girl from abuse, stopping a robbery), confronting bears and a daughter's lesbian love, and rediscovering love. When they get to the Wizard--a legendary curandera--will she give them a heart, the nerve, the brains, and the freedom to get home to Kansas? Don't settle for any novel but Unsettling. You'll cheer for the laughing, catfighting, healing, and love these four sisters-by-friendship experience.

Funny, Charming and Real

I loved this book. The characters were very real and so much like women I know. Strong, intelligent, warm and funny, the characters leapt off the page and into my heart. I really liked these women. I wanted them as my friends. The problems they had and they ways in which they dealt with or avoided them were touching and real. This book made me laugh and cry. It was wonderful storytelling with well developed and believable characters. I will keep this book on the shelf I reserve for favorite, read again books.

Hysterical and REAL

I picked this book up after reading the flap and the description, and decided to go ahead and buy it. I'm REALLY glad I did!! The characters are fun and REAL--they speak the way my friends and I speak. It's laugh-out-loud funny, and I kept reading passages aloud to my husband because I enjoyed it so much. I've already passed the book on to a friend, and she loves it, too. Definitely a five star read!

Very Empowering

I just finished reading the book. The characters were so real and deep. I really got to know and love them. They felt like real women with real strengths and real problems and the real power to change their lives for the better. This book will encourage you to un-settle and go for what you really want in life. Every 30 or 40-something woman should read this and feel the power for herself.