Historical Fiction – Indigenous – Latinx

Published: 6/7/2022

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

En cada generacin hay una vidente que mantiene las historias convida.

Luz Little Light Lopez, lectora de hojas de t y lavandera, debe valersepor s misma cuando su hermano Diego, encantador de serpientes yobrero fabril, tiene que huir de la ciudad a causa de una turba violentade supremacistas blancos. Mientras Luz se abre camino en el Denverde los aos treinta, empieza a tener visiones que la transportan ala tierra indgena donde naci: la Tierra Perdida. Luz presencia losorgenes de sus ancestros, cmo floreci su familia y cmo se vioamenazada. Atestigua las fuerzas siniestras que han devastado supueblo y sus tierras durante generaciones. Al final, depende de ellasalvar de las garras del olvido las historias de su familia.

Con la voz singular de Kali Fajardo-Anstine, las entretenidas ycomplicadas vidas de los Lopez llenan las pginas de esta sagamultigeneracional.Mujer de luzes una novela cautivadora sobrela supervivencia, los secretos de familia y el amor, poblada por unreparto de personajes inolvidables, cada uno tan especial, memorabley complejo como nuestra querida herona, Luz.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of anIndigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalistSabrina & Corina.

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 flourished, and how they were threatened. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion.

Written in Kali Fajardo-Anstines singular voice, the wildly entertaining and complex lives of the Lopez family fill the pages of this multigenerational western saga.Woman of Lightis a transfixing novel about survival, family secrets, and lovefilled with an unforgettable cast of characters, all of whom are just as special, memorable, and complicated as our beloved heroine, Luz.