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03327aam a2200469 i 4500 001 8D729A38D86411EE9510A68C40ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240302011431 008 231004t20242023meu d 000 f eng 010 $a 2023044484 020 $a 9798885797269 (large print : hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1346124866 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d ORX $d LNC $d CHY $d IUO $d IK2 $d RNL $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a nwpr--- 050 00 $a PS3569.A5452 $b M33 2023 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23/eng/20220926 100 1 $a Santiago, Esmeralda, $e author. 245 14 $a Las madres / $c Esmeralda Santiago. 250 $a Large print edition. 260 $a [Waterville, Maine] : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2024. 263 $a 2402 300 $a 513 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 500 $a "This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso. 520 $a "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 together"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a They 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 navigates 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 is wiped clean, but she suffers spells that send her mind to times and places she can't share with others. In 2017, in the Bronx, Luz's adult daughter, Marysol, wishes she better understood her. But how can she when her mother barely remembers her own life? To help, Ada and Shirley's daughter, Graciela, suggests a vacation in Puerto Rico for the extended group, as an opportunity for Luz to unearth long-buried memories and for Marysol to learn more about her mother's early life. But despite all their careful planning, two hurricanes, back-to-back, disrupt their homecoming, and a secret is revealed that blows their lives wide open. In a voice that sings with warmth, humor, friendship, and pride, celebrated author Esmeralda Santiago unspools a story of women's sexuality, shame, disability, and love within a community rocked by disaster. 650 0 $a Large type books. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Female friendship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Memory disorders $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Hurricanes $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Secrecy $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Puerto Rico $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l RFPC397 $d 20240511010402.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417021016.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240302012211.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8D729A38D86411EE9510A68C40ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search