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The Weight of All Things, by Sandra Benitez, tells the story of a young boy, Nicolás, searching for his mother. The book begins with Nicolás and his mother at the funeral of the assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero. Gunfire erupts, and his mother protects him with her body, causing her to be shot and killed. By MICHAEL PORTER. THE WEIGHT OF ALL THINGS. By Sandra Benítez. Hyperion, $ n one of her previous novels, ''Bitter Grounds,'' Sandra Benítez traced the recent history of El Salvador in a saga. She is also the author of Bitter Grounds, which won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award, and The Weight of All Things, which was a Book Sense 76 selection. Benítez is a past Keller-Edelstein Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Minnesota, and recently won a Bush Foundation Fellowship in Fiction.