Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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BER- Native American Heritage Month
FLO - BookRiot's Best Summer Reads
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HAR--Native American Heritage Month
FLO - BookRiot's Best Summer Reads
FLO - Goodreads' Most Anticipated Books of Summer
HAR--Native American Heritage Month
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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
2022
Language
Español
Formats
Description
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 valerse por sí misma cuando su hermano Diego, encantador de serpientes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. 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. As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors' origins, how her family...
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