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by Désirée Zamorano (Author)
Bound by blood and separated by secrets, the Amado women must come together in the face of daunting circumstances.
In Southern California, divorced matriarch Mercy Amado worries deeply for her three daughters. Celeste, the oldest, doesn't speak to her youngest sister. Fiercely intelligent and proud, she has moved away to San Jose and prides herself on being the fixer of all problems. Sylvia, who married a rich but abusive spouse, has immersed herself in suburbia with her two young daughters. Nataly is trying find fulfillment and security in the free-spirited Latino art world. She works on her textile creations by day and waits tables in an upscale restaurant by night.
Can Mercy bring her daughters back together following a string of earth shattering events? Or will the Amado women close ranks and lose each other in the process?
Author Biography
Los Angeles native Désirée Zamorano is the author of the groundbreaking, family-saga, historical fiction novel Dispossessed as well as Amarisa's Cooking Pot: Tales of Life in All Its Wonders. Her work is an exploration of where cultures connect and collide. Selections can be found in Alta, The Kenyon Review Online, and Akashic's South Central Noir. Her work "Caperucita Roja" was chosen as a distinguished short story in Best of American Mystery and Suspense, 2022. She teaches linguistic and cultural diversity at California State University Long Beach and is a senior fiction editor at Silk Road Review. You can find her at desireezamorano.com.
