Sixteen-year-old Martha's life is transformed when her mother leaves her in Laredo, Texas, in 1990 with a grandmother she never knew, who is a revered healer, or curandera.
year: 2018
call number/section: 1000
subjects: grandmothers, juvenile fiction, healers, mexican americans, secrecy, blessing and cursing, families, texas, secrets, fiction, family life, texas, history, 20th century, juvenile fiction