Laura Esquivel is best known as the author of Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate, published 1989) which was made into an award-winning movie by the same name (1992). I have taught the book and the film in my Love and Death class (ENG102) and the students generally love it. However, my favorite novel by Esquivel is her second: La Ley del Amor (The Law of Love, 1994) which is a whacky futuristic, sci-fi (yes, I have to use both of those for this novel), mythological, multi-genre, multi-media work with graphic novel segments set to music with the included CD. I shit you not.
The Law of Love is some serious crazy (used here as a noun) featuring reincarnation, body swapping, flashbacks to Mexico's ancient past, and a space voyage on a Mexican starship named The Intergalactic Cockfight. Yes. You heard correctly: The Intergalactic Cockfight. That is just so brilliant I am going to reread the novel and write something about it. I'll probably author the Wikipedia entry on it as well since there is not one yet. Stay posted!
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