Las Madres A novel

Esmeralda Santiago

eAudio - 2023

From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them togetherThey refer to themselves as “las Madres,” a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties.Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975 when fifteen-year-old Luz, the tallest girl in her dance academy and the only Black one in a sea of petite, light-skinned, delicate swans, is seriously injured in a car accident. Tragically, her brilliant, multilingual scientist parents are both killed in the crash. Now orphaned, Luz navig...ates the pressures of adolescence and copes with the aftershock of a brain injury, when two new friends enter her life, Ada and Shirley. Luz’s days are consumed with aches and pains, and her memory of the accident...

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Published
Books on Tape
Language
English
Main Author
Esmeralda Santiago
Online Access
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Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size356 GB
Parts12
ISBN9780593794111
Release Date8/1/2023
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size356 GB
ISBN9780593794111
Release Date8/1/2023