The release date for the English version of 'Woman of Light' by
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is Apr 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Sabrina & Corina, a National Book Award nominee, comes a "dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical" epic of treachery, love, and destiny that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West.
"There are moments when you just dive into a book and let the pages flow past you, as if you're swimming beneath a vast, glittering night sky."—Celeste Ng, writer of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE Book Riot • A MAGICAL BOOK CLUB PICK AND AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK
Every generation has a seer who preserves the folklore.
Luz, "Tiny Light" Following her elder brother Diego's brutal expulsion from the town by a white mob, Lopez, a laundress and reader of tea leaves, is left on her own. Luz starts having dreams that take her to her Indigenous homeland in the neighboring Lost Territory as she makes her way around Denver in the 1930s. Luz remembers the beginnings of her ancestors, the prosperity of her family, and the threats they faced. She is a living example of the evil powers that have destroyed her people's homelands and caused generations of suffering. Luz ultimately has the responsibility of preventing her family's history from being lost to time.
This intergenerational western story is filled with the outrageously amusing and fascinating lives of the Lopez family, all written in Kali Fajardo-Anstine's unique voice. The captivating book Woman of Light is about love, family secrets, and survival. It has a remarkable cast of people who are all as unique, complex, and memorable as our cherished protagonist, Luz.
JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE LONGLISTED • INCLUDED IN THE LONG LIST FOR THE CAROL SHIELDS FICTION PRIZE