Sofia and her daughters--Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca--endure hardship and enjoy love in the sleepy New Mexico hamlet of Tome, where the comic and the horrific, the real and the supernatural, reside.
Year earlier, Gabo's mother was killed in the borderlands between Mexico in the U.S., and her organs sold on the black market. Now his father, Rafa, has gone missing, and the deeply religious Gabo, his virgin aunt Regina, a history teacher, and an old blind man named Milton try to find out what has ...
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From the American Book Award-winning author of The Mixquiahuala Letters comes the story of a remarkable woman and her four daughters living in New Mexico-- a novel shaped by influences as diverse as Mexican mythology, Catholicism, and today's headlines.
Short stories that capture the experience of love in all its modes, by a writer who has won the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, an American Book Award, and the Carl Sandburg Prize.