![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved the stories of these women who struggled with all this as well as the language and the culture, and still were able to call Mexico home. She had vivid memories of her young British mother and grandmother defending her and her sisters from Zapatista troops and starvation during the 1915 famine that swept through the country. She was a little girl when her father, Governor Zepeda, was assassinated on the dictator’s orders. My grandmother used to tell us the most stirring stories about her ill-fated father and her family’s experiences during that crucial 1910–1920 period. ![]() Sylvia Montgomery Shaw: I’ve been fascinated by the revolution since I was a child growing up in Mexico. Why did you pick that particular time period? Could you say a little bit about the significance of the war from a Mexican perspective? Swedenborg Foundation: This novel (and the entire trilogy) is set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. We sat down to learn more about her inspiration for this book, the first of a trilogy. In Paradise Misplaced, author Sylvia Montgomery Shaw follows the lives of two lovers caught in the throes of the Mexican Revolution of the early 1900s. Paradise Misplaced: A novel of love, honor, betrayal, and murder in a time of war ![]()
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