While I was giving birth to Lucy, my husband, Alessandro, was lying in bed with my sister Isabel.
And thus, Ines Camargo the youngest daughter of an Italian nobleman and a Colombian poet begins to speak in a bitter, sweet voice.
Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century Colombia, where the Catholic Church exercises total control over women, Orange Wine weaves an unforgettable story of sisterhood, love, passion, and betrayal. Isolated in a society that opposes her desires, Ines struggles with her identity as a mother, artist, sister, lover, and woman. Her choices are stark: accept her duty to her family or embark on a sensuous journey of self-discovery. Each path will cost her or those she loves something dear.
Mirroring the alchemical process of turning oranges into wine, Ines must create a new life from a bitter pith, pressing sweetness from life's agonies as she struggles toward artistic freedom and feminine awakening.
"From the opening sentences, I fell under the spell of Esperanza Hope Snyder's enchanting heroine. Inés is talented, passionate, resilient, and a sublime storyteller. Unlike her sisters, she wants a larger life, and gradually, weaving her way between town and city, husband and lover, Colombia and Europe, she finds her way to making fragrant soap and gorgeous paintings. Orange Wine is an absorbing and delightful novel." --Margot Livesey, The New York Times bestselling author of The Road from Belhaven
"Orange Wine transports you back to early-twentieth-century Colombia, then spreads its magic across themes of sisterhood, betrayal, love, loss, and--most importantly--hope. This is a delicious novel." --Ann Hood, The New York Times bestselling author of The Knitting Circle
"Orange Wine, like its extraordinary heroine, is at once charming and gritty and undeniably compelling--a fable of femininity suffused with love." --Robert Cohen, author of Amateur Barbarians and Inspired Sleep
Esperanza Hope Snyder was born and raised in Bogot, Colombia, and has lived in the US, Italy, and Spain. She is the author of a poetry collection, Esperanza and Hope (Sheep Meadow Press, 2018), and two plays, Lullaby for George and The Backroom, the latter of which is being adapted to film. Delicates, her cotranslation of Wendy Guerra's poetry collection (Seagull Books, 2023), was noted in the New York Times and was long listed for the 2024 National Translation Award. Esperanza has also been assistant director of Bread Loaf in Sicily and cocoordinator of the Lorca Prize. She lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Orange Wine was inspired by the story of her grandparents.
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