Santiago Author:Ann Nolan Clark Tia Alicia was a Guatemalan lady, descendant of a proud family of Spain. And Santiago, her foster son, was an Indian, child of the lovely Maria who for ten years had been the "courage and strength" of Tia Alicia's pension. Until his twelfth birthday Santiago knew nothing of the ways of his own people, only the sheltered life of the old house i... more »n Guatemala City, with its long traditions of graciousness and decorum.
Told with a moving beauty of style and lit with imaginative understanding, "Santiago" is a story not only of one boys endeavor to "be a good Indian in today's world", but of a whole people striving to find its place in the sun.