The Volcano Daughters A Novel

Gina María Balibrera

eBook - 2024

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 sweeping yet intimate look at love, sisterhood, and resistance in the face of devastation.” —Charmaine Wilkerson, author of Black Cake • “A bilingual, mythological, and original debut about resistance and survival.” —VultureEl Salvador, 1923. Graciela, a young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous women, is sum...moned to the capital, where she is claimed as an oracle for a rising dictator. There she meets Consuelo, the sister she has... more