Gina Maria Balibrera
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador's brutal dictator, El Gran Pendejo, and their flight from genocide, which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to cannery row, each followed by a chorus of furies, the ghosts of their murdered friends, who aren't yet done telling their stories. El Salvador, 1923. Graciela grows up on a volcano in a community of indigenous women indentured to coffee plantations owned...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planenta Mexicana
Publication Date
2025.
Language
Spanish
Description
El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, una joven que crece en un volcán en una comunidad de mujeres indígenas, es llamada a la capital, donde se la considera un oráculo para un dictador en ascenso. Allí conoce a Consuelo, la hermana que nunca conoció, quien fue secuestrada de su hogar antes de que Graciela naciera. Ambas pasan años bajo el cruel régimen de El Gran Pendejo, colaborando involuntariamente con su régimen de terror, hasta que el genocidio...
Author
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide—which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco’s Cannery Row—each haunted along the way by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories
“Gripping and spellbinding...Unforgettable.”—Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half • “Stunning...A...
“Gripping and spellbinding...Unforgettable.”—Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half • “Stunning...A...