"To me, an important part of the book's meaning is an exploration of the idea of 'comadres,' of the historic necessity of the work that mothers do to fill in the gaps where our societies fail us, and about the political and artistic power of this work that we do to support each other and our communities," Balibrera told the Chronicle in an email.
"We learn that our ocean has its own life underground," Balibrera writes with deep familiarity as one of her protagonists arrives in the city by the bay in 1938. "From the Outer Richmond to the Mission, the waters travel, becoming a secret lake, Dolores, that carries us together to the Mission District..."
In the world of 'The Volcano Daughters,' two sisters, Graciela and Consuelo, both eventually make their way from their home country of El Salvador to San Francisco, but not without many harrowing twists and turns that span decades.
As the book opens in 1914, the girls live a day-to-day existence largely absent of men, who seem like mere phantoms that float.
Collection
[
|
...
]