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Ashes Of Izalco ASHES OF IZALCO By Claribal Alegria and Darwin J. Flakoll I found the beginning of this book quite confusing. I had a difficult time discerning who the main characters were and what was the plot. I also wasn’t quite sure when the Mother had died and it wasn’t until later that I realized the reason that Carmen was present was because she had traveled home for her mother’s funeral. However, once I got into the book and started to put the characters in context, I really began to enjoy it. This book has very sad overtones. It is concerned with the human struggle for happiness in life, or maybe just contentment. Just about every main character, present and past, seems to be involved in some inner turmoil. Carmen is struggling with her own identity and her unhappiness in her marriage to Paul. She feels she plays a role of dutiful wife as she was brought up to be, but that the marriage really has no strong foundation and she and her husband have nothing in common. Possibly a repetition of her parents’ marriage' She admits to being convinced by her husband to have an own, carmen, very, struggle, book, been, mother’s, mother, marriage, life, frank, being, about, way, virgil, small, really, one, isabel, experience, character, time, through, struggles, strong, something, seeing, same, questions, parents, main, left, human, even, doesn’t