A Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sandra BenitezIn, A Place Where the Sea Remembers, several events take place to describe the small town of Santiago, Mexico. This city is located just south of the border with El Paso, Texas. The book focuses on a woman known as Remedios. She is a very old healer who helps people with their problems of love, hate, etc. She is the "good" one in the book, while El Brujo, the sorcerer, is the bad man in the book. The other strength of this book is that it contains several short narratives focusing on one or more citizens of Santiago. Some examples are Candelario (the salad), Marta (pregnant 16 year old), Fulgencio (the photographer who loses all his equipment), and Don Justo Flores (he left his wife and children and now it haunts him when one of his daughters dies). In these stories, these people face hardships and trials that teach us readers how to deal or not deal with life when it doesn't seem great. This novel really stirred my emotions, especially at the beginning. For example, Candelario works at a restaurant owned by a man named Don Gustavo. Candelario is the salad maker and the one taught, by Don Gustavo himself, how to prepare a perfect Caesar Salad for his customers. The doctor and his wife came in and both ordered salads and Candelario prepared the salads exactly according to Don's instructions, but the customers were not happy. Because they weren't happy, Don fired Gustavo on the spot that night. This made me very angry at Don and people like Don. It sucks when you do something right but then someone is unhappy so suddenly it was the... center of the card... upside down and it was Marta's baby who died. The first page of, A Place Where the Sea Remembers, is actually a flashback that belongs right before the last group of pages. The penultimate chapter states how Richard was dragged down the river and taken to see. On the first page of the novel, Remedios waits for a body to be washed out to sea. It was Richard's body that had been waiting. The last page showed Remedios with the whole family waiting for the body to reach shore so they could bury it. All poor Chayo can sit and wait and cry for the son she cared for.