Alma Cruz wishes her willful teenage daughter, Luz, could know the truth
about her past, but there are things Luz can never know about the
journey Alma took to the US to find her missing father.
In 2000—three years after the disappearance of her father, who left
Oaxaca to work on farms in California—Alma sets out on a perilous trek
north with her sister, Rosa. What happens once she reaches the US is a
journey from despair to hope.
Timeless in its depiction of the depths of family devotion and the blaze
of first love, Luz conveys, with compassion and insight, the plight of those desperate to cross the US border.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Prologue: Los Angeles: 2015
- 1 Oaxaca Bound
- 2 Into the Fog
- 3 Angels’ Mist
- 4 Little Box of Stars
- 5 Simple Solutions
- 6 Oaxaca Once Again
- 7 Abundance
- 8 The Length of Mexico
- 9 Nogales
- 10 Border of Crosses, Desert of Bones
- 11 Night of the Blinding Stars
- 12 Woman with the Eyes of a Saint
- 13 Not Knowing
- 14 ¡Sí, Se Puede!
- 15 City of Angels
- 16
- 17 For Love
- 18 Dolores
- 19 Waiting for Alma
- Epilogue
- Math Journal of Alma Cruz: Problems and Solutions
- Author’s Note Bearing Witness to Luz
- Acknowledgments
- Reading Guide Topics and Questions for Discussion
- About the Author
- Selected Titles From She Writes Press
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