On the run since the early 1970s, after the death of her mother in a terrorist attack perpetrated by the group to which she belonged, in distress after the accidental deaths of her husband and son, Amelia, a medical illustrator in her thirties, gets on a bus to Mexico in San Francisco without looking behind her. She will end up in an anonymous Central American country, on the edge of a lake surrounded by volcanoes, in the small village of La Esperanza (hope), and settle in La Llorona, a shabby four-room hotel run by an old American woman. A place full of mysteries and beauty which she will inherit, before starting to renovate the place while rebuilding herself, through meetings and watercolors. Despite the warm exoticism and the procession of good feelings that flow through it, The hotel birdsthe twelfth novel by the American Joyce Maynard, progresses according to a somewhat crude mechanism, from ease to implausibility.
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