Historical Fiction Book Club
Thu, Oct 17
|Birch Tree Books
Join us for the discussion of The Volcano Daughters by Gina Maria Balibrera with your host Hope.
Time & Location
Oct 17, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Birch Tree Books , 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Endlessly surprising, vividly imaginative, bursting with lush life, The Volcano Daughters charts a new history and mythology of El Salvador, fiercely bringing forth voices that have been calling out for generations.A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide--which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco's Cannery Row--each haunted along the way by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories"
Gripping and spellbinding...Unforgettable."--Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half -
"Stunning...A sweeping yet intimate look at love, sisterhood, and resistance in the face of devastation." --Charmaine Wilkerson, author of Black Cake -
"A bilingual, mythological, and original debut about resistance and survival." --VultureEl Salvador, 1923.
Graciela, a young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous women, is summoned to the capital, where she is claimed as an oracle for…