Magical Realism/Like Water for Chocolate

1. What is Magical Realism?
2. What have you noticed about the book so far?

Interested in more links?

Laura Esquivel's biography:

http://www.biography.com/articles/Laura-Esquivel-185854

IMBD about Como agua para chocolate:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103994/

Magical Realism:

Definitions of Magical Realism:

http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/resourcebank/definitions/

http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/MagicalRealism.html

http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_mr.html