Delmira is brought up by her mother and grandmother in an unaffectionate all-female home. She has a wicked sense of humour and a vivid imagination.
Agustini, her village, is not an ordinary place: it is a world in which Delmira sees her grandmother floating above the bed when she sleeps; where stones turn into water; where torrential rain can be bought at a travelling fair during the dry season; and where her family's elderly serving woman develops a stigmata, then disappears.
As Delmira grows into a woman she embarks on a quest to find the missing stranger who is her father, and makes a decision that forces her to leave home forever.
'Leaving Tabasco' is a glittering coming-of-age novel that fizzes with humour and magic.
