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Malas / Marcela Fuentes.

Summary:

"In 1951, a mysterious old woman confronts Pilar Aguirre in the small border town of La Cienega, Texas. The old woman is sure Pilar stole her husband and, in a heated outburst, lays a curse on Pilar and her family. More than forty years later, Lulu Muñoz is dodging chaos at every turn: her troubled father's moods, his rules, her secret life as singer in a punk band, but most of all her upcoming quinceañera. When her beloved grandmother passes away, Lulu finds herself drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and who lives alone and shunned on the edge of town. Their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family's past. As the quinceañera looms--and we move between these two strong, irascible female voices--one woman must make peace with the past, and one girl pushes to embrace her future. Rich with cinematic details--from dusty rodeos to the excitement of a Selena concert and the comfort of conjunto ballads played at family gatherings--this memorable debut is a love letter to the Tejano culture and community that sustain both of these women as they discover what family means."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593655788
  • ISBN: 0593655788
  • Physical Description: 373 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, [2024]
Subject: Conflict of generations > Fiction.
Blessing and cursing > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Mexican American teenagers > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Grandmothers > Death > Fiction.
Revenge > Fiction.
Secrecy.
Texas > Fiction.
Genre: Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 35 of 51 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Brown Library System. (Show)

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  • 0 current holds with 51 total copies.
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George H. & Laura E. Brown Library F Fue (Text) 30308101352111 Adult New Fiction Available -
Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library F FUENTES (Text) 39493110115351 Adult Fiction Available -
Benhaven Public Library F Fue (Text) 33630005393389 Adult Fiction Available -
Black Mountain Library F FUE (Text) 0020660313873 Adult New Fiction Checked out 10/22/2024
Bordeaux Library F FUENTES (Text) 31781068331212 Adult Fiction Available -
Clemmons Branch FIC Fuentes, Marcela (Text) 0112523763263 Adult New Fiction Checked out 11/09/2024
Cleveland County Main Library F FUENTES (Text) 22281500157984 Adult Fiction Checked out 10/25/2024
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