Written in Kali Fajardo-Anstine's singular voice, the wildly entertaining and complex lives of the Lopez family fill the pages of this multigenerational western saga. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. Luz recollects her ancestors' origins, how her family flourished and how they were threatened. As Luz navigates 1930's Denver on her own, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. "There is one every generation-a seer who keeps the stories." A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award Finalist Sabrina & Corina
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