"Wonderfully evokes Nicaragua"s enchanting beauty and the enormity of its loss."--Kirkus Reviews "Descriptive and compelling, Shattered Paradise brings the reader to this magical land, its folkloric culture and its diminishing wildlife." --Maria Beltran, Readers" Favorite SHATTERED PARADISE is a lyrical, stunning and poignant memoir of survival and quick adaptation--as Ileana, alongside with her rooted Roman Catholic mother, manage to break free from a war infected life in Nicaragua, bullying school masters, and a womanizing father whose obsession with women and inner strength manage to carve an unexpected destiny for the two. Araguti brings to light the world of childhood in all of its innocence, curiosity and strength. Araguti, child number eight and sister to perhaps over twenty other unknown siblings, grew up happy and a dreamer amid the cloud rain forest of her isolated farmhouse and the mystical life of a small town, City of Mist. Until, the revolutionary war that came...