By the critically acclaimed author of Tyger Tyger, a warm, magical story of a girlโs struggle to keep a promise to her dead mother.
Glorieta Magdalena Davis Espinosa is happy that Papi married Alice. Sheโs happy that he can smile again after years of mourning Mamรก. But the urn containing Mamรกโs ashes disappeared into a drawer the day Alice moved in.
If everything about Glorietaโs life is going to change, then she wants one thing to go her way: She wants to hear stories about her mamรก when the family gathers on the last night of los Dรญas de los Muertos. And that can only happen if Tia Diosonita will allow Mamรก to be buried with the Espinosas in holy ground. If she will allow people to speak Mamรกโs name.
With the help of her best friend, River, and her cousin Mateo, Glorieta sets out to convince Diosonita that Mamรก is not burning in Hell. To do so, sheโll have to learn to let hate goโand 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.