Description: Ximena, chronically ill, spends hours in bed looking at picture books, thinking, and dreaming. Her imagination stimulated by fairy tales, Greek myths, and ancient Indian legends, she confuses fantasy with everyday existence. Forced to piece together snippets of information gleaned from her parents' conversations and her own observations, she forms a not-quite-coherent picture of life in the Andes, where her window looks out on both a magnificent landscape and the squalor of an Indian encampment. But her world begins to change. The Indians rebel, and her parents make preparations to flee their home. Ximena begins to awaken from her muddle of fantasies and realities to her own complexities and to society's prejudices.

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