By the critically acclaimed author of Tyger Tyger, a warm, magical story of a girlâs struggle to keep a promise to her dead mother.
Glorieta Magdalena Davis Espinosa is happy that Papi married Alice. Sheâs happy that he can smile again after years of mourning MamĂĄ. But the urn containing MamĂĄâs ashes disappeared into a drawer the day Alice moved in.
If everything about Glorietaâs life is going to change, then she wants one thing to go her way: She wants to hear stories about her mamĂĄ when the family gathers on the last night of los DĂas de los Muertos. And that can only happen if Tia Diosonita will allow MamĂĄ to be buried with the Espinosas in holy ground. If she will allow people to speak MamĂĄâs name.
With the help of her best friend, River, and her cousin Mateo, Glorieta sets out to convince Diosonita that MamĂĄ is not burning in Hell. To do so, sheâll have to learn to let hate goâand to love the people who stand in her way.
In prose that sparkles with magical undertones, author Kersten Hamilton weaves a tender story about grief, faith, and the redemptive power of love.