We Are Green and Trembling It is a world populated

It is a world populated with drunks

gravely ill

and even the cleanup

But the expanse of the watershed and the rich soils of its floodplain lured European settlers and American pioneers

We Are Green and Trembling It is a world populatedSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing a dead end life as a nun, he's become Antonio and undertaken monumental adventures: he has been a mule driver, shopkeeper, soldier, cabin boy, and conquistador; he has wielded his sword and slashed with his dagger. Now,