De la mano de la autora de Sabrina y Corina, finalista del National Book Award, nos llega una historia épica de traición, amor y destino que abarca cinco generaciones de una familia chicana e indígena en el oeste de los Estados Unidos.

En cada generación hay una vidente que mantiene las historias con vida.
Luz “Little Light” Lopez, lectora de hojas de té y lavandera, debe...

Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.

Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.

Rafael tries to save his toys from his baby sister, Essie, by building a wall from shoeboxes, toilet paper rolls, and other household objects in this playful exploration of spatial sense and geometry.

A Mixteca Indian from Oaxaca, América Soliz, suffers from the poverty and hopelessness of her Chicago ghetto, made more endurable by a desire and determination to be a poet.

In 1825 when Josefina trusts a trader in Santa Fe with an important deal, she makes a surprising discovery about this young American who leaves town without paying her.

Short stories based on Mexican and Mexican-American folklore depict the encounters of traditional and contemporary people with a variety of scary creatures.

Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Tía Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.

"Ana es aún una jovencita cuando su padre decide mudar a su gran familia a los Estados Unidos. Ella intuye que su vida cambiará para bien. Y aunque encuentra mejores oportunidades, descubre que en los Estados Unidos, la sociedad, la familia y la religión también se confabulan para reprimirla y detenerla. Sin embargo, para poder conseguir sus objetivos, Ana debe sacrificar todo lo que valora y convertirse en un individuo desarraigado y obsesionado...