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Author
Language
English
Description
"1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidre's fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show. 1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection—a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.
“Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart.”—Sandra Cisneros
WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK...
“Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart.”—Sandra Cisneros
WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, a division of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"De la mano de la autora de Sabrina y Corina, finalista del National Book Award, nos llega una historia epica de traicion, amor y destino que abarca cinco generaciones de una familia chicana e indigena en el oeste de los Estados Unidos. En cada generacion hay una vidente que mantiene las historias con vida. Luz 'Little Light" Lopez, lectora de hojas de te y lavandera, debe valerse por si misma cuando su hermano Diego, encantador de serpientes y obrero...
