Victoria Rivera Mckinley

In Search of the Luminous Heart, Victoria Rivera Mckinley. NonFiction Awards: Best Spiritual/New Age Book

Las Comadres and Friends National Latino Book Club Beginning with her family s origins as tenant farmers in the mountains of Puerto Rico at the turn of the nineteenth century, Victoria Rivera Mckinley leads readers through dramatic and painful events, which in spite of psychological explanations, add up to experiences that are much larger. Against a historical backdrop of Puerto Rico s changing culture, she shows how a family of ten children survive and learn to look out for one another. This is a success story, but not simply because the author leaves Puerto Rico and becomes a psychotherapist in America. Rivera McKinley offers an extraordinary perspective that finds truth in how each person lives experience in his or her own way.