Teacher Guide

Like Water for Chocolate Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

For more works by Esquivel, see her novels The Law of Love and Swift as Desire, her memoir The Sum of Our Days, and her children's book Sweet as the Chocolate.

For novels with similar themes, consider: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende; One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Gracía Márquez; The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaaruni; Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros; The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan; Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan; and The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

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