Coconuts for the Saint, Paperback/Debra Spark

Maria Elena has given up on men until she faints on the blue cobblestone streets of Old San Juan. What she needs is sugar; what she gets is an abandoned wedding cake, a mysterious baker, and his triplet daughters. Is Sandrofo the bereaved widower he claims to be? Maria Elena falls in love, and becomes determined to learn the truth. About author(s): DEBRA SPARK is the author of five books of fiction, including Unknown Caller, The Pretty Girl, and Good for the Jews . Other books include Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing , and the anthology Twenty Under Thirty . A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is a professor at Colby College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives with her husband and son in North Yarmouth, Maine.