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The Volcano Daughters
The Volcano Daughters: A Novel | Gina Mar�a Balibrera
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A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador�s brutal dictator, El Gran Pendejo, and their flight from genocide, which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to cannery row, each followed by a (…more)
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rachelsbrittain
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Told in the voices of the murdered Indigenous women from an El Salvador community, The Volcano Daughters follows sisters kidnapped at the whim of their father, step-mother, and the supernatural-obsessed dictator, El Gran Pendejo. Forced to take part in his regime, the sisters do their best to survive a country determined to erase their Indigenous roots. Heartbreaking and beautiful, revealing a horrifying history I knew nothing about.

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Whoa…. The Volcano Daughters is certainly one of, if not the best, contemporary novel I‘ve read this year.

Comparisons to 100 Years of Solitude will be made, and I think they‘re valid, if only on the surface level; it‘s what piqued my initial interest. But Balibrera has made The Volcano Daughters a work all her own, indebted not to G.G. Marquez but the ghosts of history.

Full of lyrical writing and imagery. Challenging yet accessible. Read!

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Love this whole passage, especially the highlighted section; Balibrera captures longing perfectly.

Finding tons of great writing like this throughout.