Luz's sight unlocks visions of her family's past generations in the "Lost Territory" and their struggles for dignity and peace.Ĭombining extensive research with a propulsive narrative that spans decades, Fajardo-Anstine delivers a historical novel that never feels like a history lesson. Luz grows into herself, exploring the wider world of Denver's ruling elite and navigating the challenges of the time and place-the Great Depression, KKK-enforced segregation, police brutality and the attention of various men. After Diego is beaten nearly to death and forced to leave town by a white family for his relationship with their daughter, Luz begins working for a young lawyer. She reads tea leaves and lives with her brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, and their aunt, Maria Josie, since their parents abandoned the family. Luz is a young woman indigenous to what is now called the American Southwest and possessed with second sight. Primarily set in Denver, Colo., in the 1930s, Fajardo-Anstine's first novel reaches back into the late 1800s to render an extraordinary, many-threaded tapestry of multiple lives and complex origin stories. From Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of the acclaimed story collection Sabrina & Corina, comes Woman of Light, a multigenerational epic.
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