"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 Ric o in 1975 when fifteen-year-old Luz\, the tallest girl in her dance academ y and the only Black one in a sea of petite\, light-skinned\, delicate swa ns\, 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 acc ident 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 adu lt 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 thei r careful planning\, two hurricanes\, back-to-back\, disrupt their homecom ing\, and a secret is revealed that blows their lives wide open. In a voic e that sings with warmth\, humor\, friendship\, and pride\, celebrated aut hor Esmeralda Santiago unspools a story of women's sexuality\, shame\, dis ability\, and love within a community rocked by disaster."
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