First published 2020
In Denver, Colorado, Indigenous Latina women face the weight of history and the pull of home. A sex worker and her daughter abandon their southern Colorado roots for California, only to discover a hostile new world. A woman emerges from prison to find her childhood city transformed by gentrification, barely recognizable beneath its new facade. Another woman uncovers ancestral secrets buried in disputed land, where heritage surfaces during conflicts over territory. In the collection's centerpiece, the Denver family of Sabrina and Corina confronts a brutal pattern of violence targeting the women in their lives. They find unity only through ancient rituals that connect them to their ancestors. These women move through their landscape with careful strength, reading the land as they read their own survival. Their stories reveal how place shapes identity and how women endure across generations of displacement and loss.
Genres: fiction, short-stories, literary-fiction, contemporary
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, generational-trauma
Setting: California, Colorado, Denver
Period: 21st-century
216 pages · Paperback · One World
Content warnings: violence